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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 color hair does the nurse have?

2. What color does Melvin use for his text and illustrations for his second comic?

3. What does the doctor think is amusing in one of the comics?

4. How many teeth did Triceratops have?

5. Who were the Triceratops worst enemy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the nurse think is the possibility of there being an emergency at Flippy's house?

2. What does one of the frogs say about Melvin's drawings in his comic, and how does Li'l Petey respond?

3. What is the nurse's reaction when Flippy shows her and the doctor the comics the kids have made?

4. What does Flippy say comics must be from now on?

5. What information does Melvin make up about toothbrushes?

6. What topics does Flippy want banned from comics his kids are writing?

7. What does the nurse tell Flippy after she has read some of the comics?

8. What information do Summer and Starla provide about the poetry form haiku?

9. How does Dennis the toothbrush get to be a lawyer for dinosaurs?

10. Why does Flippy apologize in Chapter 6, and what does he tell his kids?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Melvin writes two comics. How is Melvin’s second comic better than the first? What does that reveal about how practice brings improvement?

Essay Topic 2

Nurse Lady tells Flippy to “take a chill pill” (98). Why does Nurse Lady tell Flippy to take a chill pill? What does she mean when she tells him that?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Cat Kid Comic Club? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and character? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

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