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

2. Who does Nick appeal to, when his parents tell him that he cannot play soccer this weekend?
(a) Mr. MacDonald.
(b) His coach.
(c) Coby.
(d) Ms. Hardwick.

3. What does Miss Quattlebaum’s name mean, according to Nick?
(a) Foolish frog.
(b) Fruit tree.
(c) Tiresome talker.
(d) Dirty sweater.

4. How does Nick characterize the morning of his mother’s return?
(a) Ominously quiet.
(b) Just like old times.
(c) Otherworldly.
(d) Eerie and unprecedented.

5. What is the phrase “to nip something in the bud” an example of?
(a) A simile.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) A euphemism.
(d) A malapropism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Dean and Don take from Nick?

2. What is “onomotophobia”?

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

4. When does April tell Nick to meet her?

5. Whose book is Nick’s father reading, while Nick does his homework?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the style of Booked?

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

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

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

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

10. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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