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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 is Donna Jones's job at SunRay farms?

2. When the school is put on lockdown, where is Marshall?

3. What is Tamaya's plan for finding Chad?

4. What does Chad tell Tamaya he has been thinking about while he has been lost in the woods?

5. What does Chad tell Tamaya he could use the stick to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tamaya end up getting more fuzzy mud on her, and how does her response show her common sense?

2. How do the kids discover that Tamaya has lost her vision?

3. What finally causes Marshall to stand up to Chad, and how does this moment contradict Marshall's worst fears about himself?

4. How does Tamaya's parents' divorce make her feel as if she is always missing something?

5. When Marshall is on the basketball court at lunch, what is ironic about his behavior toward Tamaya?

6. When they are in the woods together, what does Tamaya learn about Chad's story about the hermit?

7. How does Tamaya try to ensure that she will be able to find her way back out of the woods?

8. What does Chapter 21 reveal will happen in Heath Cliff?

9. When they are in the woods together, what does Chad reveal is behind his anger toward Marshall?

10. How does Tamaya end up getting completely stuck in the fuzzy mud?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sachar use chapter titles to convey information? How does he use them to convey ideas? How does he use them to create anticipation and tension? Write an essay that explains the various purposes of the chapter titles that Sachar has chosen in Fuzzy Mud. Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from throughout the text, and be sure to cite quoted evidence in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

One effect of having multiple perspectives in a novel is that the reader gets to see events and characters from more than one perspective. Think of an event or character that seems one way when presented from either Marshall's or Tamaya's perspective but that you understand differently when the same event or character is then presented from the other character's perspective. Explain how this event or character is presented first and then show how the reader's understanding is enhanced or changed when the same event or character is seen from the perspective of a different character. Support your ideas with evidence from the text, and remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

How does Sachar use both flashback and flash-forward in this narrative? What is the difference between these techniques and the purposes they serve in this story? What similar purposes do they serve? Write an essay that analyzes how and why Sachar uses both techniques. Support your arguments with evidence drawn from throughout the book. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

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