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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 Buzzy Senior give everyone to drink?

2. What is Sheila wearing when she gets up the first morning of vacation?

3. What worries Jimmy when he learns he might play baseball with an ex-major league player?

4. What does Libby think is chasing her?

5. What is the maximum age to play in the baseball game?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Grandma and Buzzy Senior get along when they first meet?

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

3. Where does Jimmy say he is, before Peter gives Jimmy his news?

4. How do the families react when Turtle gets sprayed by a skunk?

5. What does Fudge do to stop conversations when someone disagrees with him?

6. What is Peter's family's vacation house like?

7. Why is it hard for Peter to avoid Sheila?

8. How does Fudge propose to Sheila?

9. How does Tootsie act?

10. How does Mom treat her sons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The characters in the novel must often respond to disappointing situations. Discuss how characters respond to disappointment in the novel.

1) How does Fudge respond when he can't find a book with his name in the title? How does Izzy deal with his response?

2) How does Frank Fargo respond when Tootsie walks on his painting? What does his response show about him as a character? What qualities allow him to have this response?

3) How does Sheila respond when her friend can't come on vacation? How does Peter respond when he does poorly at the baseball game? What other ways do characters respond to disappointment? What generalizations can you make about responses to disappointment in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Fudge wants to be creative. Discuss creativity in the novel.

1) How does Sheila try to encourage Fudge's creativity? Is she successful? Does Fudge really have creativity?

2) How is Frank Fargo, an artist, creative? How does his creativity affect his responses to the world? What other characters are creative?

3) How does Peter try to encourage Fudge's creativity? How does Izzy encourage Fudge to be creative? What does creativity allow Fudge to do?

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