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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 is the maximum age to play in the baseball game?

2. What is Sheila afraid of?

3. What does Fudge do when his mother mentions Maine?

4. What is Sheila's best friend's name?

5. Where does Mom suggest Fudge can have his wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter try to convince his brother not to call him "Pete"?

2. What does Mom suggest that Peter do while Sheila is babysitting Fudge?

3. How does Sheila react to finding out that Jimmy Fargo is coming?

4. What does Sheila do when Fudge refuses to come down from the tree?

5. How does Turtle react when Peter tries to take him for a walk?

6. How does Mom respond when Fudge asks if he can bring a friend on vacation?

7. Why is Fudge's questioning of Mrs. A about Uncle Feather confusing to her?

8. What does Bicycle Bob look like?

9. How does Tootsie react when Peter pretends something is wrong with him?

10. How do Mom, Dad, and Peter explain what "cooties" are?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel has an episodic structure. Discuss the structure of the novel.

1) What are the episodes of the novel? How is its structure episodic? How are the different episodes in the novel tied together? What unifies them to make a story?

2) Why does the author choose an episodic structure for this book?

3) How effective is the episodic structure in conveying the author's ideas?

Essay Topic 2

When Sheila and Peter fight, Grandma points out that the children sometimes forget to be kind. Discuss kindness in the novel.

1) Why aren't Sheila and Peter kind to each other? How would their relationship change if they tried to be kind to each other?

2) How is Peter kind to Fudge? Why is he kind to Fudge? When and why is he unkind to Fudge? What are the results of Peter's kindness to Fudge?

3) When and why are the novel's other characters kind or unkind? What generalizations can you make about kindness, based on the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss communication in the novel.

1) Why does Fudge have difficulty communicating that he's looking for his bird, Uncle Feather? What does Fudge still need to learn about communication?

2) What causes miscommunication between Mom and Peter? What are the results of miscommunication?

3) How does point of view affect communication? How do the differences in Peter and Jimmy's feelings about Big Apfel affect their communication about the baseball game?

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