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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 much money does Annabel's mother spend buying vacuum cleaner bags?

2. What does Annabel ask her father after he wakes up in chapter 2?

3. Why does Annabel object to the breakfast that her mother prepares for her on a normal day?

4. What is Boris holding when he arrives at the Andrews family's door?

5. Does Annabel say anything to her real body at the end of Chapter 3 about the switch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the way in which Annabel does laundry and list at least five clothing items involved in the process.

2. Describe three things that Annabel thinks make her mother too strict.

3. Describe how Annabel tricks her mother into agreeing to let her go to camp.

4. What is unusual about Annabel's attitude when it comes to her parents? How does she normally act on a day-to-day basis?

5. How does Annabel feel about her father and how does the reader know that?

6. List and describe three of the five shows Annabel flips through on the television.

7. How does Annabel feel when Bill first sees her as her mother and not her true self?

8. What does Boris Harris look like?

9. What do Annabel and her mother fight about the night before Annabel wakes up in her mother's body?

10. Why is Annabel not all that surprised that she awakens in her mother's body?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annabel is happy and excited when she awakens to find herself in her mother's body. Unexpected as it might seem at first to the reader, the opportunity to experience life in her mother's body is not disorienting or strange to her, but rather a gift from her mother. Write an essay that explains why Annabel considers the body switch a gift rather than a punishment, how Annabel communicates the mismatch between her teenage understanding of the world and the adult body she occupies, and how this contributes to the novel.

Essay Topic 2

The author uses point of view as an important literary element to allow the reader to experience the story a certain way. Point of view may stay the same or change within a novel, or even within a chapter. Write an essay that defines all the the point-of-view characters, and how point of view is used. How does this type of point of view contribute to the novel? Is this a good or bad choice for this novel, or is the point of view that this story is told in optional? Why or why not? Provide examples to support your argument.

Essay Topic 3

A coming-of age novel is a story in which the main character undergoes experiences that create an internal and/or external shift, thereby ushering them into or toward adulthood. Can "Freaky Friday" be considered such a story? Write an essay that takes a position. Prove or disprove that "Freaky Friday" is a coming-of -age story. Be sure to define who is or is not coming of age, what experiences or adventures help or hinder that character develop, and how and why the character is or is not transformed. Use examples from the novel to prove your point.

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