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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 does Bryce do for Julie?
2. What do Matt and Mike want to do after high school?
3. How long has Juli's family lived in the house they are in now?
4. About what does Bryce worry concerning his mother's announcement?
5. About what do Matt and Mike agree?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Juli say about why she wants to clean up the yard?
2. About what do Rick and Lynetta fight, and what happens?
3. Why does Bryce do for Juli as a good-will offering?
4. Where is Juli's father going on an early Sunday morning and what does Juli decide to do?
5. What happens when Juli, her father and David go for ice cream?
6. What does Juli feel when she hears about Shelly and Bryce?
7. What is Juli forced to realize about her family?
8. Who does Garrett say will be in a bidding war for Garrett?
9. What does Patsy insist upon the next morning and what does she announce?
10. How does Juli now feel about Bryce?
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
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Juli and Bryce. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Bryce's father and Juli's father. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in Flipped help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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