3. What is Nick’s role as Coby fights with Dean Eggleston?
(a) He helps Coby.
(b) He breaks it up.
(c) Bystander.
(d) He runs for help.

4. What does Nick accuse his parents of?
(a) Just giving up.
(b) Lying to him.
(c) Ruining his life.
(d) Lying to each other.

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

6. Who is Nick and Coby’s middle school named for?
(a) Eartha Kitt.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W. E. B. DuBois.
(d) Rosa Parks.

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

8. How many players are on each team in futsal?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 11.

9. How does Nick characterize the morning of his mother’s return?
(a) Otherworldly.
(b) Ominously quiet.
(c) Eerie and unprecedented.
(d) Just like old times.

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

11. What does Coby say when Nick apologizes for not jumping in to save him?
(a) He says that Nick owes him one.
(b) He says that it’s no big deal.
(c) He tells him to deal the cards for blackjack.
(d) He tells him they will settle it in Dallas.

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

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

14. What book goes Nick have to find a malapropism in, as punishment for his inattentiveness?
(a) Lord of the Flies.
(b) Huck Finn.
(c) Into the Dust.
(d) Tuck Everlasting.

15. What is the type of poem that spells a word with the first letter of each line?
(a) Sonnet.
(b) Acrostic.
(c) Villanelle
(d) Ode.