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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. Popper fantasize about?

2. What does the policeman tell Mr. Popper to get?

3. Why does Mr. Popper take a season off of work?

4. How does Mr. Popper know so much about Admiral Drake?

5. How much does Mr. Popper pay the service man?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Admiral Drake show that he knows of Mr. Popper?

2. What happens when Captain Cook comes into the barber shop?

3. How does Mr. Popper ruin his clothes?

4. What happens when the first penguin has his first meal at the Popper's house?

5. What does the service man think of what Mr. Popper asks him to do?

6. What makes Mrs. Popper sad when Mr. Popper and Captain Cook come home from their first walk together?

7. How does the penguin show that the food from the fridge was not enough?

8. Why does a police man come to Mr. Popper's house?

9. Where does the penguin sleep the first night at the Popper's, and what does Mr. Popper think of this?

10. Why is Mrs. Popper so unhappy when she sees the first penguin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the best examples of comic relief from this book, and how did they affect the tone of the book?

Essay Topic 2

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Atwater have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

What happens at City Hall, and what message do you think the author was trying to send through this event?

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