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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 name of the enclosure Rat and Nick stand in?

2. What is the real reason Nick wants to go home from the scout camp?

3. How does Nick describe the boys in the Schoolboy enclosure?

4. What major event in Hornby's life happens just after his eleventh birthday?

5. Who told Nick Arsenal would beat Swindon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Don Rogers?

2. Why is the real reason Nick wants to leave the scout camp?

3. Why does Nick stereotype women?

4. What does Nick say he feels about himself in retrospect?

5. How does Nick's first disappointment with Arsenal affect him?

6. How does the family's dad upset Nick in this section?

7. How does Nick show signs of the beginnings of his obsession with Arsenal in this section?

8. What are Nick's conditions for a perfect game?

9. What does Nick observe at his first game for Arsenal?

10. In what way does Nick use football to rebel against his father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Nick suggest football in the 90s shapes his character? What games and moments does he remember and why? How does football in the 90s mirror Nick's life?

Essay Topic 2

In what way do Nick's successes and failures mirror Arsenal's successes and failures? How does Nick try to distance himself from Arsenal's successes and failures?

Essay Topic 3

In what way did Arsenal succeed in 1989? How did this success affect Nick? How does it affect the people close to him? How does this success prove a turning point in Nick's life?

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