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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. Why does Nick not play football?

2. Who does Nick appeal to, when his parents tell him that he cannot play soccer this weekend?

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

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

5. Where does April tell Nick Ms. Hardwick is moving?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the Dallas Cup?

4. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

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

6. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

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

9. What is Nick like as a student?

10. What is the style of Booked?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

What is the effect of the poetry on Booked? What is the range of poetic styles in Booked? How does he help the telling of the story, and where if at all does it detract from it?

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