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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 is “onomotophobia”?

2. Where does Coby shoot his banana kick when he and Nick are playing soccer?

3. What is verbomania?

4. What does Don Eggleston knock out of Nick’s hands?

5. How many players are on each team in futsal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nick characterize futsal?

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

3. What happens in Nick and April’s conversation after her swim practice?

4. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

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

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

8. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

9. What is the style of Booked?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of Booked—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

When is Booked most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 3

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

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