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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Otis used to do a lot of the time?
2. What do Gloria and Opal spend most of the afternoon doing?
3. What does the preacher do after Opal shares things that she has been thinking for a long time?
4. What do the Preacher and Opal notice when they return to Gloria's house?
5. Who helps Miss Franny get out of the rain?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened after Opal and the preacher went to search for Winn-Dixie?
2. What did Gloria tell Opal she used to like to do and why can't she do it anymore?
3. What did Otis do that led the police officers to arrest him and what did he do when they tried to arrest him?
4. What did Littmus do when he arrived home from the war and then what did he have a yearning for?
5. How does Opal try to keep all of Gloria's ghosts away?
6. How does Opal react to finding Winn-Dixie and what actions does she take?
7. What does Miss Franny suffer from and what does it remind Opal of?
8. What does Opal do when she realizes Winn-Dixie is missing and what does Gloria tell her?
9. When Miss Franny's great-grandfather was 14 what did he do?
10. What was the name of the candy Littmus invented and what was it famous for?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe events in the story that led Winn-Dixie to help relieve a character's loneliness or sadness. Do you believe a pet can relieve someone's loneliness or sadness? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Why might a reader have empathy for the character Gloria? What ways is Gloria unique? Does Gloria help Opal heal? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
At what point in the novel does Opal learn that she is capable of causing sadness as well as receiving sadness? Which characters in the novel does Opal cause sadness in? How does that happen? Does she change that? How or why not?
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