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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. Why does Peter say that he follows Sheila and Fudge to Mrs. A's house?

2. What does Peter do to scare Sheila when he joins her and Fudge?

3. What baseball team did Mitzy's grandfather play for?

4. Where does Peter suggest that he could go instead of on the family vacation?

5. How many hours does it take the family to drive to Southwest Harbor, Maine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dad respond, when he sees everyone trying to recapture Uncle Feather?

2. What does Peter imagine Jimmy's reaction will be to his lie about what happened to their vacation house?

3. What does Peter think of Southwest Harbor when the family drives through it?

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

5. How does Fudge propose to Sheila?

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

7. What argument does Sheila give to try to convince Peter to let her come along on the search for Uncle Feather?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The characters in the novel experiences changes that they have to deal with. Discuss adapting to change in the novel.

1) How do the different members of the family react to finding out that Grandma and Buzzy Senior are getting married? Why?

2) How does the family react to Jimmy's father deciding to stay with them? Why?

3) How do the children react to change, compared with how the adults react to change?

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