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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. How does Bryce feel about being chosen?

2. How are the boys known who are chosen for the auction?

3. What is Juli doing when she spies her father getting ready to leave early Sunday morning?

4. Who joins Juli on the second day of her cleaning project?

5. What is Grandpa's response to Patsy's announcement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Juli and Bryce when the Baker family arrive for dinner at the Loski household?

2. What does Patsy insist upon the next morning and what does she announce?

3. What does Juli say about why she wants to clean up the yard?

4. How do Juli and Chet work together?

5. What does Juli feel when she hears about Shelly and Bryce?

6. Where is Juli's father going on an early Sunday morning and what does Juli decide to do?

7. Describe the conversation between Juli and her parents about their yard?

8. What is wrong with Juli's chickens and what advice does she get about them?

9. What is the Booster Club auction and how are the boys chosen?

10. What happens with the bidding for Bryce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

A minor subplot in the book concerns the character of David, who is Juli's uncle and is in an institution for people who cannot function independently. Discuss the following:

1. Discuss David's characteristics and why he is in an institution.

2. Do you think David's younger brother is morally responsible for assuming the financial burden for David even when it impacts his own family?

3. How much can you deduce about the character of Robert by how he handles his older brother's situation and interacts with David? Give examples.

4. Bryce wonders to himself if his father Rick would have handled Bryce the same way as Robert handles David if Bryce had been injured to that degree at birth. What do you think? Why? Give examples.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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