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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. When does April tell Nick to meet her?

2. What is verbomania?

3. What doe Nick’s father add to mac-and-cheese?

4. What does Coby say when Nick apologizes for not jumping in to save him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

3. What is the style of Booked?

4. How does Mr. MacDonald reprise Nick’s punishment assignment?

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

6. What does Mr. MacDonald give Nick in the library, and what are the conditions under which he gives it to him?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Booked. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

How does Kwame Alexander portray parents and the world of adults in Booked? What kinds of things are reserved for parents alone? What kinds of things do kids and parents have in common with parents? What kinds of access do the younger characters get, to the parents’ knowledge and authority, by the end of the book?

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