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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 causes Ms. Hardwick to call Nick to the front of the class and read his notebook?
(a) The fact that he was sleeping.
(b) She sees what he is writing.
(c) The intensity on his face.
(d) The sneer on his lips.

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

3. How far has Nick gotten into his father’s dictionary, when he is in the hospital?
(a) Ls.
(b) Ws.
(c) Rs.
(d) Ys.

4. Where does Nick throw up?
(a) In his hands.
(b) In Parnell’s gym bag.
(c) In his shoes.
(d) In the water cooler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nick get injured?

2. What is Nick’s role as Coby fights with Dean Eggleston?

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

4. Where does Coby recall Nick’s parents having taken him and Nick?

5. Who has delivered a note for Nick from April?

(see the answer key)

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