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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How regularly will Nick’s mother come home to visit?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Every other weekend.
(c) Every weekend.
(d) Three nights a week.

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

3. What book have Nick’s parents required him to read?
(a) His mother’s training manuals.
(b) A biography of Pelé.
(c) His father’s dictionary Weird and Wonderful Words.
(d) His father’s copy of the Bible.

4. What doe Nick’s father add to mac-and-cheese?
(a) Mustard.
(b) Tabasco sauce.
(c) Hamburger meat.
(d) Worcestershire sauce.

5. What is Nick tormented by, after his parents tell him that they are separating?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Fainting spells.
(c) Asthma attacks.
(d) Stomach aches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where have Nick and Coby’s teams been invited to play?

3. Where does Nick’s mother say she is going to take a job?

4. Where does Coby shoot his banana kick when he and Nick are playing soccer?

5. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?

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