Confession of an Imaginary Friend

Question 1

Why did Jacques want to be set free?

Answer 1

He thought he could be real. (like Fleur)

Question 2

How did Jacques helped Merla get a real dog?

Answer 2

Jacques thought that if Merla showed responsibility to take care of him, Merla could get a real dog.

Question 3

What was the audience’s reaction to Bernard’s magic show?

Answer 3

They thought Bernard was hilarious.

Question 4

Why was Jacques satisfied with helping his friends?

Answer 4

He felt good about it.

Question 5

What is Fleur’s Dad’s job ?

Answer 5

He is a Puppet maker.

Question 6

True or false. Is Fleur, Jacques first “owner”?

Answer 6

True.

Question 7

What makes Jacques decide to leave Fleur?

Answer 7

He feels meloncholy about being invisible.

Question 8

What trick did “Maurice the Magnificent” perform with Fleur, and what did he give her?

Answer 8

Maurice made her magically disappear in a person size cabinet then reappear, AND he gave her a broken compass as a gift.

Question 9

What does Fleur guess when her parents are worried about how they’ve supported her imagination too much with an extra bunk bed, table setting, and set of books?

Answer 9

Fleur thinks her sister has an imaginary friend, she’s never told her about.

Question 10

What does Jacques dream up for his new imaginary friend, AND what does it eat?

Answer 10

He dreams up a Great Dragon Herring that eats cloud root beer floats and moon grilled cheeses, and its favorite food is stardust.

Question 11

Who is the new imaginary girl Fleur meets at the swing set?

Answer 11

She’s a roller skating cowgirl, who is the imaginary friend of the little girl on the merry-go-round.

Question 12

Why did Fleur run away from the imaginary roller skate girl in the park?

Answer 12

Because the girl asked her if she ever felt like she was invisible.

Question 13

What does Fleur’s mother have to do besides saying “Good night, don’t let the bed bugs bite,” tuck Fleur into bed, and kiss her good night.

Answer 13

She has to do the same thing for Jacques, Fleur’s imaginary friend in her other bunk bed.

Question 14

Why does Fleur’s father have to respond to a police call?

Answer 14

Fleur jumped into the gorilla pit at the zoo. (fortunately the gorilla was blind and deaf.)

Question 15

Why did Fleur end up at in the emergency room?

Answer 15

She bashed her own head with the frying pan, (Her parents weren’t even looking.)

Question 16

Why were Arnold and his imaginary friend Mr. Pitiful at the psychiatrist’s office with Flora?

Answer 16

Arnold and Mr. Pitiful had jumped off of their garage roof.

Question 17

What is the problem with the boy whose imaginary friend is stinky sock?

Answer 17

The boy who in stinky sock’s words, is the “world’s messiest little boy” has parents who are obsessively neat. They can’t stand their son’s messiness.

Question 18

Where do Jacques Papier, stinky sock, the “Everything,” and Roller Skating Cowgirl all meet?

Answer 18

They meet at Imaginaries Anonymous.

Question 19

What did Jacques Papier have to give to Oogly Boogly to help try to become real, and set himself free?

Answer 19

his broken compass

Question 20

What did Fleur do to set Jacques free?

Answer 20

She used her imagination to set him free.

Question 21

Who was Pierre, and what was their first heist?

Answer 21

Pierre was Jacques new imaginary friend, they imagined they were outlaws, and went into a bank and stole all of the lollipops.

Question 22

What does Jacques become next, after he filled out his reassignment form?

Answer 22

He became an imaginary dog for Marla.

Question 23

What did Marla end up drawing when Jacques asked her to draw him?

Answer 23

She drew Francois, Fleur’s “wiener” dog.

Question 24

Why did Marla consider Jacques the “best dog ever.”

Answer 24

Because he made her feel that she could do anything.

Question 25

How did Jacques coach Bernie into throwing the dodge ball.

Answer 25

He told him to imagine that he was a lobster and hit the laziest kids, by throwing the ball “so it floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.”

Question 26

How did Bernie finally apologize to Zoe for hitting her in the eye with the dodgeball?

Answer 26

He came to her house, put on an eyepatch and Zoe laughed.

Question 27

What is the group chant for Imaginaries Anonymous?

Answer 27

“I’m only as imaginary as I feel, imaginary or not.”

Question 28

Why was Jacques so happy when Cowgirl gave him back his broken compass?

Answer 28

He realized the compass represented the real magic, the magic that he’d lost, and it was a reminder for him to appreciate it now, because it might soon be gone.

Question 29

How did Bernard win the Talent Show?

Answer 29

With Jacques help and his broken compass, he did imaginary magic and everyone found him hilarious.

Question 30

What was the biggest gift that Jacques gave to Bernard?

Answer 30

He gave him the support so that- “Bernie the Wondrous” finally made himself appear.

Question 31

How did Jacques prepare himself to know when he was truly home?

Answer 31

He remembered the people who made him, knew that just by being himself and sharing kindness, he was with them. When he knew these things he would truly be ready to go home.

Question 32

Where, what, and with whom does Jacques end up, AND what does the big sister say?

Answer 32

Jacques ends up back in Fleur’s house as little sister’s Felicity’s imaginary friend. Fleur says to him, “Welcome home, Jacques Papier.”