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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the outcome when Nick and Coby’s team plays the girls team?

2. What does Mr. MacDonald tell Nick when he complains about his parents?

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

4. What does Nick say Coby’s house smells like?

5. How does Nick characterize the morning of his mother’s return?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the fallout of the fight Coby and Dean Eggleston have in the cafeteria?

3. How did it come to pass that Nick and Coby are on opposing soccer teams?

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

5. What happens in Nick and April’s conversation after her swim practice?

6. What happens when Dean bursts in and interrupts Nick’s conversation with April?

7. What is it like for Nick, to have his mother back in town?

8. What is the main character like as a person?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the tension between books and soccer grow and develop and get resolved over the course of Booked? How is it defined in the beginning, what changes it, and what is it like at the end? What resolution has Nick arrived at?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the most important plot points in Booked. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about him, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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