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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. What is Nick’s father about to do, when he sees Nick leaving the house?
(a) Go to work.
(b) Come home with donuts.
(c) Go running.
(d) Leave on a trip.

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

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

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

5. How many followers does Coby tell Nick Nick’s father has?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 450.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?

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

3. Where does Nick’s mother take him, after he cleans his room?

4. What does Nick watch while his father is not at home?

5. What kind of award does Mr. MacDonald have in his room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of “limerence” (114)?

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

3. What is it that brings Nick’s mother back from Kentucky?

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

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

6. What happens when Nick meets the Egglestons in the library?

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

8. How does Nick characterize futsal?

9. What is Nick like as a student?

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

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