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The Thing About Jellyfish Quiz

Ali Benjamin

This Study Guide consists of approximately 64 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Thing About Jellyfish.

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Ghost Heart — Part One: Sometimes Things Just Happen

Part One: Invisible — Part Two: Best Educated Guess

Part Three: Background — Dumb Old Words

Part Three: Expert # 1 — How to Make a Promise

Part Three: Experts #2 & #3 — Part Three: Crazy Brave

Part Four: Variables — How to Get Things Wrong

Part Four: Face-to-Face — Zombie Ants

Part Four: How to Lose a Friend — Part Five: Stronger Than Us

Part Five: Imagine a Creature — Part Five: Even More Wrong

Part Five: Venom — Part Five: What I Don’t Want to Talk About

Part Five: Things Are Closer Than They Appear — Part Five: Spare Change

Part Five: Goodbye, Thor — Part Five: Tuesday, 3 p.m.

Part Five: Wednesday — Part Five: Endings

Part Six: Immortality — Part Six: She Made It

Part Seven: What If? — Part Seven: Heroes and Villains

Symbols and Symbolism

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Franny stop eating lunch with Suzy? (from Part Four: Variables — How to Get Things Wrong)

She wants to sit with the popular kids.

No one likes Suzy.

She doesn't like Suzy anymore.

Suzy hurt her feelings.

2.

Why was Suzy angry at Franny's funeral? (from Part Five: Venom — Part Five: What I Don’t Want to Talk About)

She and her mother didn't get a seat.

She wasn't mentioned.

She couldn't cry and felt that meant Franny was right in finding different friends.

It was hot.

3.

What characteristic of jellyfish did Suzy think made their lives easy? (from Part Four: How to Lose a Friend — Part Five: Stronger Than Us)

Their lack of emotions.

Their strength.

Their wide range of species.

Their multitude.

4.

Why did Suzy estimate that Franny's heart beat only 412 million times? (from Ghost Heart — Part One: Sometimes Things Just Happen)

Because she had a heart transplant.

Because she had a slow heartbeat.

Because she died at age 12.

Because she had a fast heartbeat.

5.

Why did Suzy reject Angel Yangihara as a jellyfish expert? (from Part Three: Experts #2 & #3 — Part Three: Crazy Brave)

Because she inflicted pain on a mouse.

Because she'd never been stung.

Because she'd come up with a treatment for jellyfish stings.

Because she reminded Suzy of Franny.

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