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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 do all of the students' theories about what has happened to Chad seem to have in common?

2. When Marshall thinks about his friends telling Mrs. Thaxton about Chad's bullying, how does he feel?

3. What is Marshall feeling embarrassed about when he starts walking through the woods?

4. What is the name of the dog that licks Tamaya when the searchers find her, Marshall, and Chad?

5. On page 91, when Marshall thinks that Tamaya's hand is "grotesque," what does this mean about her hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What condition is Chad in when Tamaya finally finds him?

2. How does Chad answer Tamaya's question about why he acts the way he does?

3. When Tamaya confronts Marshall on the basketball court, what makes it clear that the school nurse's treatment is not helping Tamaya's rash?

4. What is ironic about Chad's threat to use the stick to hit Tamaya?

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

6. How does Chad feel that he is different from his siblings and from the other Woodridge students?

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

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

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

10. When Chad tells Tamaya and Marshall about being up in the trees, what does Tamaya think sounds so nice about it, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For Chad and Marshall, learning to understand themselves and their intentions more clearly is a journey that reaches a turning point when they are in the woods together for the second time. But their journey does not end here, of course--there are still many more chapters of the novel to go. How do the remaining chapters of the novel demonstrate whether or not these two boys have been successful in learning to understand themselves better? Is there evidence that they have made progress by the end of the novel, or do they fall back into their old ways? Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about whether the things they realized about themselves in the woods have had a lasting impact. Support your claims with evidence drawn from throughout the text. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

Now that you have finished the whole book, think back to the ideas you had about what this book is trying to say about bullies and bullying. What forms does this behavior take in the book? What are the causes of the behavior? Do people always understand when they are being bullies? How does this relate to the book's ideas about what makes people "good" or "bad"? What are the consequences of bullying to both bullies and their targets? How do these consequences help the reader understand the book's messages about bullying? Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the message about bullying that Sachar is sending in Fuzzy Mud. Support your arguments with evidence drawn from throughout the book. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

When you began reading this novel, you made a guess about whether Tamaya would be a static or dynamic character. What kind of a person is she at the beginning of this book? How do you know? What kind of a person is she at the end? How do you know? Does this make her a static or a dynamic character? After you have an answer to these questions, write an essay that makes a claim about whether Tamaya is a static or dynamic character and that uses evidence from the beginning, middle, and end of the text to support your claim. Remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited in MLA format.

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