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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 Tamaya have to jump over the gully?
2. What is one of the main points that the senators want Fitzman to clarify?
3. How long after Tamaya's trip into the woods does Chapter 20 take place?
4. What is Chad's attitude toward jumping the gully?
5. When the school is put on lockdown, where is Marshall?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is ironic about Chad's threat to use the stick to hit Tamaya?
2. How does Chad feel that he is different from his siblings and from the other Woodridge students?
3. By the time Marshall is found by the searchers, which items of clothing is he missing, and why?
4. What steps do Marshall and Tamaya take to warn the search party about the mud?
5. How does Chad answer Tamaya's question about why he acts the way he does?
6. When they are in the woods together, what does Tamaya learn about Chad's story about the hermit?
7. When Marshall is on the basketball court at lunch, what is ironic about his behavior toward Tamaya?
8. How do the kids discover that Tamaya has lost her vision?
9. How does Tamaya try to ensure that she will be able to find her way back out of the woods?
10. What does Chapter 21 reveal will happen in Heath Cliff?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about the illustration in the outer, upper corner of each page where a new chapter begins. When readers see the first illustration, do they have any way to know what it is? Is it easy to overlook? How is this similar to the equations and Tamaya's rash? What happens to the illustration as the book progresses? Think about not just the number of organisms in the Petri dish but the amount of attention they command as they increase in number. What does this have to do with the equations and Tamaya's rash? Eventually, the organisms in the illustration actually escape their dish and begin to spill down the margins of the page. What point is being made in these illustrations? What does this have to do with the equations and Tamaya's rash? Write an essay in which you demonstrate how these illustrations convey similar ideas to the ideas conveyed by the equations and Tamaya's rash. Support your ideas with evidence drawn from throughout the text, and remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
What message is conveyed through the contrast in settings in this text? Choose two settings and write an essay that compares and contrasts them and then makes a claim about what ideas are being transmitted by these similarities and differences. As you structure this essay, think about whether you want to write all about one setting and then all about the other, or whether you want to discuss similarities in one part of the essay and differences in a separate part of the essay. In either case, end your essay with a paragraph that shows what point Sachar is trying to make by creating these two separate settings. Support your ideas with evidence drawn from throughout the text, and remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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