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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 reason does Peter give for staying outside at the library?
2. Where does Dad go while Fudge and Peter go to the library?
3. Who flicks oatmeal at Sheila?
4. What color bandanna does Fudge put on Turtle?
5. How does Dad react after Grandma takes over steering the sailboat?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mr. Fargo's truck looks like?
2. What book does Mitzi show Fudge?
3. What does Peter do when he gets into bed, the night after he visits the library and meets Izzy?
4. How does the judge arrive to the wedding?
5. What happens to Mrs. Tubman's hat?
6. What does Fudge tell Mom happened to her lotion?
7. How do Fudge and Mitzi lose the wedding rings?
8. Why does Mitzi want Peter to walk with her around the back of the house?
9. What positions do Fudge's team members take in the field?
10. What turns Tootsie's feet blue?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
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?
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