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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. Where do Peter and his family eat supper?
2. What does Fudge usually call Peter?
3. What reason does Fudge give for calling his brother by the nickname Pete?
4. What does Sheila think Peter wants, when he joins her and Fudge?
5. What does Mitzi have on her left hand?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the family put Uncle Feather in the summer house?
2. How does Peter seem to feel about his brother Fudge?
3. How does Peter try to convince his brother not to call him "Pete"?
4. How does Sheila react to Turtle?
5. On the phone, what does Peter tell Jimmy Fargo about Sheila Tubman's vacation house?
6. How does Fudge propose to Sheila?
7. What does Peter think of Southwest Harbor when the family drives through it?
8. What does Peter imagine Jimmy's reaction will be to his lie about what happened to their vacation house?
9. What argument does Sheila give to try to convince Peter to let her come along on the search for Uncle Feather?
10. What does Bicycle Bob look like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fudge-a-mania is a novel about growing up. Discuss growing up in the book.
1) How does Peter change over the course of the book? How does he change as he grows up?
2) How does Fudge represent childhood and Peter's past? What does Fudge show about childhood and being young? How does he need to change to grow up?
3) How do the adults in the novel show what it means to be an adult? What does Peter learn from adults? How do these lessons change him or help him grow up?
Essay Topic 2
In the novel, Grandma falls in love and gets married. Peter also falls for Izzy at the library. Discuss love in the novel.
1) What does love mean for Grandma and Buzzy Senior? What kind of a relationship do they have?
2) How do Peter and his family show their love each other?
3) What kind of love does Peter feel for Izzy? Compare Peter's feelings for Izzy with Grandma's feelings for Buzzy Senior.
Essay Topic 3
Fudge wants to be creative. Discuss creativity in the novel.
1) How does Sheila try to encourage Fudge's creativity? Is she successful? Does Fudge really have creativity?
2) How is Frank Fargo, an artist, creative? How does his creativity affect his responses to the world? What other characters are creative?
3) How does Peter try to encourage Fudge's creativity? How does Izzy encourage Fudge to be creative? What does creativity allow Fudge to do?
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