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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 it that gives Nick the sense that things are not right with his parents?

2. What does Mr. MacDonald tell Nick when he complains about his parents?

3. What does Nick say gives everything else in his life meaning?

4. What is the deadline by which Nick and Coby have said they will both have girlfriends?

5. What is the word that describes the fact that Nick complains about footnotes in a book, and then includes a footnote to support his complaint?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the style of Booked?

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of the Dallas Cup?

6. What are the consequences of Nick’s limerence poem?

7. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

8. How does Nick lose his bike?

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

10. How does Nick characterize futsal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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