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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 does Sweetie Pie want to do for Winn-Dixie?

2. What do Gloria and Opal spend most of the afternoon doing?

3. What does Gloria ask the preacher to do at the beginning of the party?

4. How does Gloria react to the two surprises that Opal brings to her?

5. Who does Opal sometimes tell stories that Franny Block had told her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the group at the party come to know that Otis has arrived?

2. How did Amanda seem when she entered the library and how was this interpreted by Opal?

3. What does Opal do when she realizes Winn-Dixie is missing and what does Gloria tell her?

4. What does Gloria say the Littmus Lozenge she is given reminds her of?

5. What happened after Opal and the preacher went to search for Winn-Dixie?

6. What was the name of the candy Littmus invented and what was it famous for?

7. What did Otis do that led the police officers to arrest him and what did he do when they tried to arrest him?

8. What does Opal finally confess to her father that she has been thinking about for a very long time?

9. How does the preacher react to Opal's statements and what does he say?

10. Why was Opal very upset with herself after she gets everyone from the party inside Gloria's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters does Opal judge on who they are rather than rumor? Which characters does she seem to judge prematurely? What seems to be the difference in how they are treated by her?

Essay Topic 2

How do you think the character of Opal will do in her new home town? Why do you believe this is the case? What about her father, how do you think he will do now?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does the author interweave the them of loneliness throughout the novel? Are there any characters who do not seem to be lonely? If so, who, if not why not?

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