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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gloria tell Opal the bottles were put where they are located?
(a) To make an artistic statement.
(b) To keep the ghosts away.
(c) To help keep the earth clean.
(d) To make beautiful music.

2. What did Amanda say about the Littmus lozenge when she tasted it?
(a) It was very sweet and mader her sick.
(b) It tasted as if it had spoiled.
(c) It was the sweetest candy and made her smile.
(d) It was tasty but made her think of sad things.

3. What does the preacher do after Opal shares things that she has been thinking for a long time?
(a) Cries.
(b) Walks away.
(c) Becomes very silent.
(d) Gets angry.

4. What did Littmus decide to do because he saw the world as such a sorry place?
(a) Build an orphange.
(b) Move to another country.
(c) Put something sweet in it.
(d) Help those lost in grief.

5. What does Opal learn about Gloria that is similar to her mother?
(a) Gloria loves to garden.
(b) Gloria enjoys hearing and telling jokes.
(c) Gloria used to drink.
(d) Gloria left her own child behind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Littmus start?

2. What happened to Littmus's home?

3. What do Gloria and Opal spend most of the afternoon doing?

4. What does Gloria ask the preacher to do at the beginning of the party?

5. Why is the tension raised at the end of this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Miss Franny's great-grandfather was 14 what did he do?

2. What happens immediately after the preacher gives the blessing that causes chaos throughout the party?

3. What did Otis do that led the police officers to arrest him and what did he do when they tried to arrest him?

4. How does the preacher react to Opal's statements and what does he say?

5. Why was Opal very upset with herself after she gets everyone from the party inside Gloria's house?

6. How did Amanda seem when she entered the library and how was this interpreted by Opal?

7. What does Opal do when she realizes Winn-Dixie is missing and what does Gloria tell her?

8. How does the group at the party come to know that Otis has arrived?

9. What was the name of the candy Littmus invented and what was it famous for?

10. Where does Opal go when the sky clears and what does she do there?

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