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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. What does Mr. MacDonald distract Nick with, while he slips a book into his hands?

3. What kind of job is Nick’s mother going to take?

4. What does Nick tell Mr. MacDonald his favorite book is?

5. What is the injury that pulls Nick’s team’s goalie out of the futsal game?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nick characterize futsal?

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

4. How does Nick characterize Mr. MacDonald?

5. What is the significance of the Dallas Cup?

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

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

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

9. What is the style of Booked?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Booked. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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

Write an evaluative review of Booked. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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