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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 do Gloria and Opal spend most of the afternoon doing?

2. Who does Opal imitate keeping the beat to this music with the pointy toes of his/her boots?

3. Where does Winn-Dixie often go when he is in the library?

4. What does Sweetie Pie want to do for Winn-Dixie?

5. What does Gloria take Opal to see in her yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gloria tell Opal she used to like to do and why can't she do it anymore?

2. How did Littmus feel about his time as a soldier?

3. What did Opal ask Gloria about Otis and what does Gloria do?

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

5. How does the reader feel about Otis once they learn why he was arrested?

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

7. When Miss Franny's great-grandfather was 14 what did he do?

8. Why doesn't Otis want to come to the party and how does Opal convince him?

9. What does Miss Franny suffer from and what does it remind Opal of?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the concept of family defined throughout the novel? Does it change from the beginning of the novel to the end? If so, in what way? If not, why do you think it does not?

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 ways are Otis and Winn-Dixie the same? In what ways does Opal treat them the same? Do you think this is intentional on the part of the author? Why or why not?

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