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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. Where do the Eggleston twins go to school?

2. What toy of Coby’s does Nick say he broke?

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

4. Where does Coby recall Nick’s parents having taken him and Nick?

5. What does the librarian invite Nick and Coby to join?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 bombshell Nick’s parents drop on him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How does the tension between books and soccer grow and develop and get resolved over the course of Booked? How is it defined in the beginning, what changes it, and what is it like at the end? What resolution has Nick arrived at?

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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