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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 is the word that describes the fact that Nick complains about footnotes in a book, and then includes a footnote to support his complaint?
(a) Irony.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Contradiction.

2. What is the injury that pulls Nick’s team’s goalie out of the futsal game?
(a) Broken toe.
(b) Plantar fasciitis.
(c) Head laceration.
(d) Bloody nose.

3. Why does Nick’s father ask him to get him a pillow?
(a) Because wants a footrest under his desk.
(b) Because he will be sleeping in his study.
(c) Because he needs to prop up his office chair.
(d) Because his back hurts.

4. How does Nick characterize him and his father living together alone?
(a) A circus.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A tragedy.
(d) A war.

5. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?
(a) The sound of his friend arriving.
(b) The sound of his parents fighting.
(c) The smell of bacon.
(d) The silence of an empty house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of job is Nick’s mother going to take?

3. How does Nick describe the effects of the news that his parents are separating?

4. What is the deadline by which Nick and Coby have said they will both have girlfriends?

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

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