In today's world the easiest way to examine this question is with a graph.
You can then support your answer with whatever algebra and calculus you need.
And if you are worried that you need to know the answers without a graphing calculator, sketch it.
Anyway, it has a zero at the origin, obviously, is asymptotic to 0 from above to the right and from below to the left, and the min is at -1 and max at 1.