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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 93-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What justification does Nick’s father give, for making Nick read the dictionary of Weird and Wonderful Words?
(a) Being disciplined in understanding language.
(b) Being ready for college.
(c) Being attractive to girls.
(d) Being alert to lies and rhetoric.

2. What is verbomania?
(a) An obsession with words.
(b) Use of surreal words.
(c) A crazy use of words.
(d) Obsessive, non-stop talking.

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

4. What is the outcome when Nick and Coby’s team plays the girls team?
(a) They win 13-0.
(b) They tie.
(c) They lose 5-3.
(d) They win 5-3.

5. What does the loser of the ping-pong game between Nick and his mother have do to?
(a) The dishes.
(b) Dust the bookshelves.
(c) Shovel the driveway.
(d) Vacuum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of award does Mr. MacDonald have in his room?

2. What does Don Eggleston knock out of Nick’s hands?

3. What happens in the “best six seconds ever” (98)?

4. What is “limerence”?

5. What is Mr. MacDonald’s favorite animal?

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