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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 Turtle race out of the car when it stops?

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

3. What does Fudge use to lure Tootsie back to her high chair?

4. What is the name of the island that Southwest Harbor is on?

5. What does Fudge usually call Peter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Peter seem to feel about his brother Fudge?

10. What questions does Peter ask when Fudge says he's planning to get married?

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 sometimes lie. Discuss lying in the novel.

1) Why does Peter lie to his friend Jimmy? Why does he plan to cover his lie with another lie?

2) How do characters such as Peter and Sheila lie about their feelings? Why do characters want to hide their feelings?

3) Is lying ever kind in the novel? Are some lies worthwhile?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss conflict in the novel.

1) Why is there conflict between Sheila and Peter in the novel? What causes the conflict? How do the characters deal with it?

2) What other conflicts are there between characters in the novel, for example, the conflict between Dad and Grandma? What makes conflict worse in the novel? What resolves conflict in the novel?

3) What does conflict accomplish in the novel? Is it always bad? Can conflict have positive results as well as negative ones?

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