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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 card game do Nick and Coby play on the way to school?

2. What does Nick say love and happiness sink in when his mother leaves?

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

4. What kind of award does Mr. MacDonald have in his room?

5. Who has delivered a note for Nick from April?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Nick like as a student?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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