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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 185-217.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the score when Coby scores his goal?
(a) 2-2.
(b) 2-1.
(c) 3-2.
(d) 1-0.

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

3. What does Don Eggleston knock out of Nick’s hands?
(a) His books.
(b) April’s hand.
(c) Mr. MacDonald’s dragonfly box.
(d) His lunch tray.

4. Who scores the first goal in the match between Nick and Coby’s teams?
(a) Parnell.
(b) Coby’s captain.
(c) Coby.
(d) Nick.

5. Whose book is Nick’s father reading, while Nick does his homework?
(a) Plato.
(b) Locke.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Diderot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick’s mother chide him for?

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

3. What book goes Nick have to find a malapropism in, as punishment for his inattentiveness?

4. What does Coby say when Nick apologizes for not jumping in to save him?

5. What is the literary term for Nick asking his mother, “Why did you BALE” (96)?

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