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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 is something Juli learns from Chester?
2. What is Jenny's most prominent feature?
3. What does Juli say to Bryce about Patsy?
4. Where do the trees on the school grounds come from?
5. What causes David to become very upset?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the family's response to Patsy's announcement?
2. What is wrong with Juli's chickens and what advice does she get about them?
3. What is Juli forced to realize about her family?
4. What is the Booster Club auction and how are the boys chosen?
5. What surprises Juli about something Lynetta does at dinner and her mother's response?
6. How does Rick embarrass Bryce?
7. How do Juli and Chet work together?
8. Why does Juli end up betting her egg money and who does she win?
9. What happens when Juli, her father and David go for ice cream?
10. Why does Bryce confess to his mother about the eggs, and what is her response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Wendelin Van Draanen.
2. What in Van Draanen's background may have helped her in writing Flipped? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
Essay Topic 3
A minor subplot in the book concerns the character of David, who is Juli's uncle and is in an institution for people who cannot function independently. Discuss the following:
1. Discuss David's characteristics and why he is in an institution.
2. Do you think David's younger brother is morally responsible for assuming the financial burden for David even when it impacts his own family?
3. How much can you deduce about the character of Robert by how he handles his older brother's situation and interacts with David? Give examples.
4. Bryce wonders to himself if his father Rick would have handled Bryce the same way as Robert handles David if Bryce had been injured to that degree at birth. What do you think? Why? Give examples.
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