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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 Mr. Fargo suggest to celebrate Grandma and Buzzy Senior's engagement?

2. What does Fudge do when the library doesn't have the book he wants?

3. What does Mitzi do when her baby brother gets his diaper changed?

4. Who else does Fudge turn partially blue?

5. What does Fudge believe snoring does?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of the things Fudge tells Jimmy at the breakfast table, what makes Peter the most angry?

2. How does Sheila describe Izzy?

3. What positions do Fudge's team members take in the field?

4. What does Mr. Fargo's truck looks like?

5. What does Fudge tell Mom happened to her lotion?

6. What does Peter do when he gets into bed, the night after he visits the library and meets Izzy?

7. What turns Tootsie's feet blue?

8. What story does Fudge recount that involved him going to the hospital?

9. How do Mitzi and Fudge react when Sheila tells Mitzi to spit out the mud she licked off her fingers?

10. What causes Jimmy embarrassment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Peter and Sheila are the protagonist and antagonist of the novel, but in many ways they are similar. Compare Peter and Sheila in the novel.

1) Why do Peter and Sheila fight? How do they treat each other?

2) What do Peter and Sheila want during their vacations? How do Peter and Sheila respond to disappointment?

3) How do Peter and Sheila treat Fudge?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss family in the novel.

1) What does family mean to Peter? How does he feel about his family? How do the members of his family affect each other?

2) How is Jimmy's family different from Peter's, and how do the two boys react differently to each other's families?

3) At the end of the novel, Grandma and Buzzy Senior get married. What does this marriage mean for the extended family? What does it mean to Sheila and Peter to become family?

Essay Topic 3

Fudge-a-mania is a novel about growing up. Discuss growing up in the book.

1) How does Peter change over the course of the book? How does he change as he grows up?

2) How does Fudge represent childhood and Peter's past? What does Fudge show about childhood and being young? How does he need to change to grow up?

3) How do the adults in the novel show what it means to be an adult? What does Peter learn from adults? How do these lessons change him or help him grow up?

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