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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the word that describes the fact that Nick complains about footnotes in a book, and then includes a footnote to support his complaint?
(a) Contradiction.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Irony.

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

4. What word does Nick see when he starts to tear pages out of his fathers dictionary of Weird and Wonderful Words?
(a) Logorrhea.
(b) Sweven.
(c) Limerence.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. Why does Nick’s mockery of Don’s name not help him?
(a) It is only a day dream.
(b) His use of expletives gets him in trouble.
(c) April thinks he is being crude.
(d) The principal overhears it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nick’s mother nag him to do?

3. What is the phrase “to nip something in the bud” an example of?

4. What does the loser of the ping-pong game between Nick and his mother have do to?

5. What is Nick’s father about to do, when he sees Nick leaving the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Nick prevented from going to his soccer tournament on the weekend?

2. What is the main character like as a person?

3. What is it like for Nick, to have his mother back in town?

4. Who are the Egglestons and what is Nick’s relationship with them like?

5. How does Nick explain the leeway Mr. MacDonald gets from the students of Langston Hughes Middle School?

6. What is the fallout of the fight Coby and Dean Eggleston have in the cafeteria?

7. What is Nick’s relationship with books and literature like?

8. How did it come to pass that Nick and Coby are on opposing soccer teams?

9. What is the style of Booked?

10. What is it that Nick describes as the “best six seconds ever” (98)?

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