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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

by Robert Cormier

Larkin Weyand
English 378, 2000.

DIRECTIONS:

After reading chapter on of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, answer each of these questions. You may refer back to the text. Remember that all ties are broken by the most complete and accurate answers.

1. What is the Bumblebee?

2. What is the merchandise?

3. What does the Ice Age referred to?

4. When Barney describes getting dizzy and nauseous, what is he really doing?

5. What does the Ice Age refer to? (You can change your answer from number 3.)

6. Why wouldn't happy be the right word?

7. What had been going on for eighteen hours that Barney would describe himself as having survived?

8. What or who is the Handyman?

9. What are aftermaths?

10. What is the Isolation described?

11. Who or what is Ronson?

12. What genre is this piece of writing? Science Fiction, Non- fiction, Realism, Mystery, Horror, Fantasy, Western, Romance, or Adventure?

 

 

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