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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nick Hall’s mother’s profession?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Horse trainer.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Musician.

2. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?
(a) The silence of an empty house.
(b) The sound of his friend arriving.
(c) The smell of bacon.
(d) The sound of his parents fighting.

3. How many fans will attend the tournament Nick and Coby have been invited to play in?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. What does Coby offer Nick, to inspire him to call April?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Visions of his happiness.
(c) Threats of mockery.
(d) Chocolate.

5. What is it that gives Nick the sense that things are not right with his parents?
(a) Their silence at dinner.
(b) Their forced humor.
(c) Their barely-concealed tears.
(d) Their indifference to routines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick’s father instruct Nick to do, when Nick leaves the house?

2. What does Nick say love and happiness sink in when his mother leaves?

3. What is the injury that pulls Nick’s team’s goalie out of the futsal game?

4. What does Dean impugn of Coby’s?

5. What does Nick tell Mr. MacDonald his favorite book is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it that Nick describes as the “best six seconds ever” (98)?

2. What is Nick’s relationship with books and literature like?

3. How does Nick handle his mother’s departure for Kentucky?

4. What are the consequences of Nick’s limerence poem?

5. What is it that brings Nick’s mother back from Kentucky?

6. How does Nick explain the leeway Mr. MacDonald gets from the students of Langston Hughes Middle School?

7. What is Nick’s relationship with his mother like?

8. What is the style of Booked?

9. What is the significance of “limerence” (114)?

10. What is the bombshell Nick’s parents drop on him?

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