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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 does Coby offer Nick, to inspire him to call April?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Threats of mockery.
(c) Visions of his happiness.
(d) Alcohol.

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

3. What justification does Nick’s father give, for making Nick read the dictionary of Weird and Wonderful Words?
(a) Being alert to lies and rhetoric.
(b) Being disciplined in understanding language.
(c) Being attractive to girls.
(d) Being ready for college.

4. What causes Ms. Hardwick to call Nick to the front of the class and read his notebook?
(a) The fact that he was sleeping.
(b) The intensity on his face.
(c) She sees what he is writing.
(d) The sneer on his lips.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the “best six seconds ever” (98)?

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

3. What is Nick Hall’s father’s profession?

4. What is the outcome when Nick and Coby’s team plays the girls team?

5. What does Miss Quattlebaum’s name mean, according to Nick?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the style of Booked?

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

4. What is the bombshell Nick’s parents drop on him?

5. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

7. How does Nick end up talking to April, and what does he say?

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

9. What does Nick try to do, to get to sleep when he cannot sleep?

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

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