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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 happens in Bryce's life in 7th grade?

2. Why is Bryce annoyed with Juli?

3. What does Bryce's grandfather do?

4. What does Bryce's grandfather know concerning Bryce and Juli?

5. What does Juli do just as Bryce's mother opens the front door?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Juli take her chicken eggs to school and what does she do with them after they hatch?

2. What does Juli think is neighborly to do and why does she want to help Bryce?

3. Where do the kids wait for the bus and what does Juli do one day for Bryce while waiting for the bus?

4. What does Juli do just when Bryce's mother opens the front door and what is Bryce's response?

5. How does Bryce finally reestablish communication with Juli?

6. How does Juli "befriend" the old sycamore tree?

7. What does Juli's father do for a living and for a hobby?

8. How do the Bakers get a dog?

9. What happens that Juli gets embarrassed in front of Bryce one day?

10. What changes happen when Bryce is in the seventh grade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What is foreshadow? How many incidences of foreshadow are in Flipped? How does foreshadow contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadow in Flipped including why you believe it is foreshadow. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from Flipped and your own live to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Flipped. Are these universal symbols? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other symbols that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Van Draanen chooses the symbols she does?

2. Choose two important metaphors and trace and analyze their appearance in the novel. Are these universal metaphors? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other metaphors that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Van Draanen chooses the metaphors she does?

3. Discuss Van Draanen's use (or lack ) of literary device (such as foreshadowing, clifthangers, deux ex machina, etc...), and how they add or detract from the story. Does Van Draanen use too many or too little literary techniques? State which of the five major elements of fiction the literary device is related to (style, character, plot, setting, theme).

Essay Topic 3

Juli starts to bring eggs over to the Loski household partly in gratitude for Mrs. Loski's help and because of her attraction to Bryce Loski. Bryce and Garrett peek over the fence into the Loski's back yard and Bryce throws out Juli's eggs from then on because the back yard is so dirty. Discuss the following:

1. Should Bryce and Garrett have climbed the fence to look for a rooster rather than just asking Juli? Do you think this invades the Baker's privacy?

2. If the Bakers are presented throughout the book as the more psychologically healthy family, so you think having a filthy back yard would be at odds with a family that seems pretty highly functional? Why do you think the family allow their yard to become so bad?

3. What do you think Bryce should have done about the eggs at the very beginning? Were his motives good in not telling Juli they were afraid to eat the eggs? How could Bryce have not continued to accept the eggs and yet also not hurt Juli's feelings?

4. How would you have handled the situation with the eggs?

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