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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. Why does Mrs. Granger not give Nick the letter that she has written to him?

2. Why does the principal allow the reporter to talk to Mrs. Granger?

3. What do the students tell the reporter they have started doing with the word "frindle"?

4. How does Nick feel after the newspaper article is published?

5. What is in the envelope that gets delivered to the newspaper reporter at work on the morning after she interviews people at the school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is funny about the reporter's conversation with the students outside the school?

2. What is "freedom of the press," and how is it related to this book?

3. After they first hear the word "frindle," how do the class and Mrs. Granger react?

4. After class on the first day that Nick uses the word "frindle" in class, what does Mrs. Granger tell him?

5. What reactions do Nick's mother and the school district have to the newspaper article about "frindle"?

6. What does Mrs. Granger tell the newspaper reporter in Chapter Ten, "Freedom of the Press"?

7. What happens when Pete suggests that they try to get all of the fifth graders to ask Mrs. Granger for a "frindle"?

8. What starts happening to Nick at school and around town after the newspaper article is printed, and how does he feel about it?

9. What happens when the fifth grade picture is taken?

10. After what happens with the fifth grade picture, what does Mrs. Granger do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Frindle, Nick learns that the meanings of words come from a cultural agreement. Choose something else that is only "true" because as a culture we mostly all agree that it is true, and look up some information about your topic on the internet. (For instance, why do some cultures think that bugs are good to eat and others think that they are not? How did our standards of beauty come to be?) Write an essay about your topic, explaining what you find out in your research. Make sure to give credit to your sources.

Essay Topic 2

Choose a word that was invented within the past twenty years and is now a part of the dictionary. Write an essay about where the word came from and how it spread. Make sure to give credit to your sources.

Essay Topic 3

Do you think that Mrs. Granger is a good teacher? What things does she do that probably make her a good teacher? What things do you think she could do better? Why do you think these things--that is, what do you think is important in a teacher, and what evidence do you have from the story that Mrs. Granger does or does not measure up to your standards?

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