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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is “limerence”?
(a) A crush.
(b) A kind of fabric.
(c) The glow of a light.
(d) A citrus fruit.

2. What does Nick say gives everything else in his life meaning?
(a) Coby.
(b) April.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Books.

3. What card game do Nick and Coby play on the way to school?
(a) War.
(b) Poker.
(c) Blackjack.
(d) Gin.

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

5. What does Nick watch while his father is not at home?
(a) European soccer games.
(b) R-rated movies.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Reruns of the Super Bowl.

6. What is the phrase “to nip something in the butt” an example of?
(a) An insult.
(b) A philippic.
(c) A jeremiad.
(d) A malapropism.

7. Where does Coby recall Nick’s parents having taken him and Nick?
(a) A beach.
(b) A fun park.
(c) A zoo.
(d) A museum.

8. What toy of Coby’s does Nick say he broke?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A video game.
(c) A car.
(d) A helicopter.

9. What does Nick say Coby’s house smells like?
(a) Funky feet.
(b) Exotic cooking.
(c) Garlic and butter.
(d) Horses.

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

11. What does Nick say that gets him into trouble with his father?
(a) That he wants to move to Kentucky with his mother.
(b) That he wishes he were dead.
(c) That he refuses to do his chores.
(d) That he hates his father.

12. Where does Nick’s mother take him, after he cleans his room?
(a) Dean and Don’s house.
(b) The soccer field.
(c) His favorite restaurant.
(d) School.

13. 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.

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

15. Where have Nick and Coby’s teams been invited to play?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does April give Nick a rain check for?

2. How regularly will Nick’s mother come home to visit?

3. Where does Nick’s mother say she is going to take a job?

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

5. Who does Nick appeal to, when his parents tell him that he cannot play soccer this weekend?

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