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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. In Chapter 3, what time do Gert and Zelda arrive at Dr. Laird's?

2. What does Big Todd have everyone practice in Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 4, what time does AK47 arrive to pick up Zelda?

4. In Chapter 5, how many hours is the Community Center open where people like Zelda, Hamsa, Yoda, and Marxy can talk and play in the gym?

5. When did the Vikings lose their power and disappear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Zelda decide that a legend or saga needs in Chapter 4?

2. What music does Zelda listen to in Chapter 10, and how does she describe the music?

3. What are the good things and the inaccurate things about the Viking Gert gets Zelda for her birthday?

4. What are the conditions for Zelda working at the library in Chapter 14?

5. In Chapter 9, how does Zelda feel about alcohol, and why does she decide it is okay sometimes?

6. Why does a man in a red hat get slapped in Chapter 2?

7. In Chapter 4, what does AK47 get Zelda for her birthday and what rules come with it?

8. What happens after Gert meets Toucan and Fat Man in Chapter 9?

9. What does Zelda remember Uncle Richard doing once time when they were watching television together?

10. In Chapter 5, why does Zelda not wish to be partnered with Sarah-Beth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many societies there are gender expectations for how men and women are to behave. What are some expectations for how men and women are to behave? What are some gender expectations that AK47 and Zelda discuss? Do AK47 and Zelda think gender expectations can and should change? How?

Essay Topic 2

A Grendel is a villain in the Viking story Beowulf. What is a Grendel to Zelda? Why during times of crisis does she think Grendels are present? How do Grendels represent good and evil for Zelda?

Essay Topic 3

Vikings lived in social groups as tribes. What is Zelda’s concept of tribes? How does she have a tribe in her own life? Why is her tribe important to Zelda?

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