Characters
What is the main character's name?
Opal
This is the reason Opal enters the Winn-Dixie supermarket in the first place.
What is to buy groceries for her father?
Opal and Winn-Dixie’s instant connection highlights this theme, showing how companionship can come from unexpected places.
What is friendship?
This term describes an animal that eats both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore?
How old is Mimi?
15
What is the name of Opal's dog?
Winn-Dixie
Opal decides to take Winn-Dixie home with her after this nearly happens to him.
What is being sent to the pound?
Opal feels lonely in her new town, which introduces this major theme about wanting to belong.
What is isolation and belonging?
Clouds form when this process changes water vapor into tiny droplets.
What is condensation?
What school does Mimi go to?
Clark High School
This character is a preacher who is often too busy with church work to talk about Opal’s mother.
The preacher
Opal quickly realizes that Winn-Dixie has this unusual habit whenever he is left alone.
What is smiling at people?
The Preacher’s distant nature and Opal’s longing to know more about her mother reflect this theme.
What is family and understanding?
This is the longest river in the world, running through Egypt and several other African countries.
What is the Nile River?
What's Mimi's favorite food?
Boba
This place, where Opal finds her new best friend, is known for selling groceries—not dogs.
Winn-Dixie Supermarket
Opal’s father allows her to keep Winn-Dixie under this one condition.
What is that he must behave?
Despite being a stray, Winn-Dixie’s ability to bring joy and change Opal’s life illustrates this uplifting theme.
What is love and acceptance?
This famous document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is what Mimi wants to be when she grows up?
What is a doctor?
Opal convinces this person, the store manager, not to call the pound on Winn-Dixie.
Mr. Alfred
Opal tells Winn-Dixie that she understands how he feels because she, too, has experienced this.
What is loneliness?
Opal’s determination to keep Winn-Dixie, even when her father hesitates, shows this theme about standing up for what matters.
What is perseverance?
The author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little.
Who is E.B. White?
This is Mimi's least favorite Harry Potter Book
What is The Goblet of Fire