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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Nick play with his friend Coby?

2. What is Mr. MacDonald’s favorite animal?

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

4. What does Nick’s mother chide him for?

5. How does Nick characterize the morning of his mother’s return?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

3. What is the style of Booked?

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

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

6. How does Nick characterize futsal?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of women in Booked? How are women portrayed, and what kinds of roles are open to them? How would you evaluate Kwame Alexander’s depiction of female characters in this novel?

Essay Topic 2

How does the relationship between Nick and April progress from the beginning of the novel to the end? What are the key moments, and what are the obstacles Nick and April have to overcome? What gets them past each challenge? What are their prospects by the end?

Essay Topic 3

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Booked. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Booked.

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