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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. For what do the kids wait at the sycamore tree?

2. How does Juli help Bryce sometimes with the spelling tests?

3. Who does Lynette's mother send to get Lynette when it's time to come home?

4. What disappoints Bryce about Junior High?

5. What happens at the first time Bryce walks into the classroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Juli "befriend" the old sycamore tree?

2. What bothers Bryce one day when he goes to the Baker's to get his sister?

3. What happens when Juli sees Bryce with Shelly Stalls?

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

5. How does Juli again rescue Bryce in the sixth grade?

6. How does Bryce's father help him and his older sister hinder him in his hiding efforts?

7. How does Bryce learn about the condition of Juli's backyard?

8. What does Juli do just when Bryce's mother opens the front door and what is Bryce's response?

9. Why does Juli stay up in the tree one day instead of getting on the bus?

10. What does Bryce's grandfather point out about Juli in the newspaper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Flipped belongs to the teen novel genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the teen novel genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a teen novel and a historical novel mystery?

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

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Flipped is? Explain your response.

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