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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 Juli think Bryce is too shy to do?

2. What does Bryce decide to do to make up for hurting Juli's feelings?

3. What does Juli like to do with her father?

4. What does Juli's father ask her one day that upsets her?

5. What is important that Juli do when working with the eggs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Juli take her chicken eggs to school and what does she do with them after they hatch?

2. What does Juli's father do for a living and for a hobby?

3. Where do the kids wait for the bus and what does Juli do one day for Bryce while waiting for the bus?

4. What does Bryce observe Juli doing and what does he want to do?

5. What happens when Bryce is seven and why is he upset about the process of moving in?

6. What does Juli continue to do throughout grade school and how does she excuse Bryce's indifference?

7. When and why does Juli get involved raising chickens?

8. What changes happen when Bryce is in the seventh grade?

9. How do the Bakers get a dog?

10. What does Juli tell the principal and what does the principal advise Juli?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Flipped.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Flipped. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Flipped. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 2

Juli starts to bring eggs over to the Loski household partly in gratitude for Mrs. Loski's help and because of her attraction to Bryce Loski. Bryce and Garrett peek over the fence into the Loski's back yard and Bryce throws out Juli's eggs from then on because the back yard is so dirty. Discuss the following:

1. Should Bryce and Garrett have climbed the fence to look for a rooster rather than just asking Juli? Do you think this invades the Baker's privacy?

2. If the Bakers are presented throughout the book as the more psychologically healthy family, so you think having a filthy back yard would be at odds with a family that seems pretty highly functional? Why do you think the family allow their yard to become so bad?

3. What do you think Bryce should have done about the eggs at the very beginning? Were his motives good in not telling Juli they were afraid to eat the eggs? How could Bryce have not continued to accept the eggs and yet also not hurt Juli's feelings?

4. How would you have handled the situation with the eggs?

Essay Topic 3

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think Flipped is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

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