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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 62-92.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nick say love and happiness sink in when his mother leaves?
(a) A river.
(b) Quicksand.
(c) A swamp.
(d) The ocean.

2. Why does Nick not play football?
(a) He has bad knees.
(b) His father will not allow it.
(c) He already has a brain condition.
(d) Because he was knocked out once, playing football.

3. What is Nick Hall’s father’s profession?
(a) Writer.
(b) Landscaper.
(c) Professor.
(d) Medical doctor.

4. What was it that got the Egglestons kicked out of school?
(a) Boxing gloves.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Knives.
(d) Cigarettes.

5. What is the deadline by which Nick and Coby have said they will both have girlfriends?
(a) High school graduation.
(b) Valentine’s day.
(c) End of the school year.
(d) Start of ninth grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nick Hall’s mother’s profession?

2. What is it that gives Nick the sense that things are not right with his parents?

3. Why does Mr. MacDonald say readers read?

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

5. What does the loser of the ping-pong game between Nick and his mother have do to?

(see the answer key)

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