Flipped

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Why does the author use interior monologue in the novel?

A) To address the audience for engagement

B) To explain the thoughts of the protagonists

C) To create additional drama with personal thoughts

D) To illustrate the varying prospectives of the protagonists

2. Why does Bryce address the audience from time to time?

A) To tell a story

B) To inform the reader

C) To create a dramatic effect

D) To win over the audience

3. How might the reader describe the tone of Bryce and Juli’s retelling early in the novel?

A) Uncertain

B) Joyful

C) Stoic

D) Confident

4. What best describes how Bryce deals with conflict?

A) Avoidant

B) Confrontational

C) Communicative

D) Untruthful

5. How does Bryce’s personality compare with Juli’s?

A) Juli is unhinged, and Bryce is more stable.

B) Bryce is forthcoming, and Juli is reserved.

C) They are similar in the way they interact.

D) Juli is outgoing, and Bryce is shy.

6. What does Juli’s reaction to the sycamore tree symbolize in the novel?

A) Her desire to have her way all the time

B) Her willingness to do the right thing no matter the cost

C) Her outgoing and boisterous personality

D) Her drive to rescue trees from deforestation

7. What might the reader infer about Bryce’s father based on the novel?

A) He has unrealistic and pitiless expectations for others.

B) He is a concerned father who wants what is best for his family.

C) He has little compassion for anyone outside his family.

D) He, like Bryce, is unable to understand another’s perspective.

8. What is Bryce’s greatest flaw?

A) Giving into peer pressure

B) His dislike for Juli

C) His inability to confront issues

D) The jealousy he feels toward Juli

9. Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony—something the reader knows but some characters do not?

A) Juli’s pants are torn in the tree.

B) Champ, Juli’s dog, dies.

C) Juli is in the newspaper.

D) Juli hatches eggs for a science experiment.

10. Who likely influences Bryce’s harsh perspective on Juli’s family?

A) The Bakers

B) His friends

C) Mr. and Mrs. Loski

D) His granddad

11. How does Juli’s father feel when he first compares himself to Bryce’s father?

A) Superior

B) Inadequate

C) Friendlier

D) Braver

12. When does Bryce’s perspective on Juli begin to change?

A) When he reads about her in the paper

B) After he witnesses her determination after he insults her

C) When his granddad says nice things about her

D) When he realizes Juli doesn’t like him any longer

13. What best summarizes how Juli feels about her family’s financial decisions?

A) Ashamed because her yard is a disaster

B) Resentful because funds go to her uncle

C) Proud because of the sacrifices they make

D) Glad that they are loving, unlike the Loski family

14. Why is the novel named Flipped?

A) It describes the change in emotions of the characters.

B) It explains Juli’s obsession with Bryce.

C) Juli flipped her yard to make it nicer.

D) It portrays the anger the two characters express toward each other.

15. What is the ultimate act of Bryce’s newfound courage in the novel?

A) He plants a sycamore tree in Juli’s front yard.

B) He apologizes to Juli following the rude comments about her yard.

C) He expresses regret after Juli hears him talking about David.

D) He attempts to kiss Juli in front of everyone at the Booster Club lunch.

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How is Bryce’s character connected to Mr. Baker’s statement, “A painting is more than the sum of its parts” (Chapter 4)?

2. What is the importance of Grandad Duncan’s role in the novel?