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

2. Whose book is Nick’s father reading, while Nick does his homework?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Plato.
(c) Locke.
(d) Diderot.

3. Where do the Eggleston twins go to school?
(a) The same school as Nick and Coby.
(b) A nearby technical school.
(c) An agricultural school.
(d) The Alternative Behavior Center.

4. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?
(a) The sound of his parents fighting.
(b) The silence of an empty house.
(c) The smell of bacon.
(d) The sound of his friend arriving.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. MacDonald distract Nick with, while he slips a book into his hands?

2. Where does April tell Nick Ms. Hardwick is moving?

3. What does the librarian invite Nick and Coby to join?

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

5. What is the phrase “to nip something in the butt” an example of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Dean bursts in and interrupts Nick’s conversation with April?

2. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

3. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

5. What happens in Nick and April’s conversation after her swim practice?

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

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

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

9. What is Nick’s relationship with his mother like?

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

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