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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 do Dean and Don take from Nick?

2. What does Nick say that gets him into trouble with his father?

3. What does the loser of the ping-pong game between Nick and his mother have do to?

4. How does Nick characterize him and his father living together alone?

5. Why can Nick not play soccer with Coby after school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Nick’s reaction to his parents’ bombshell?

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

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

5. How does Nick handle his mother’s departure for Kentucky?

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

7. How does Nick characterize futsal?

8. How does Nick explain the leeway Mr. MacDonald gets from the students of Langston Hughes Middle School?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Booked is a book that purports to be about soccer, but in the end, soccer plays a very limited role. What does the soccer thread get you to focus on as a reader, and how does Kwame Alexander use the promise of a soccer story and the Dallas Cup to build narrative interest before he swerves into more personal-growth type events for Nick?

Essay Topic 3

What are the challenges Nick overcomes to make this book a rite of passage for him? How does he overcome these challenges, and what does he learn at each stage? What are the next set of challenges that come into view for Nick?

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