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

2. What word does Nick see when he starts to tear pages out of his fathers dictionary of Weird and Wonderful Words?

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

4. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?

5. What is Nick’s role as Coby fights with Dean Eggleston?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nick end up talking to April, and what does he say?

3. What is Nick like as a student?

4. What is the style of Booked?

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

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

7. What is Nick’s reaction to his parents’ bombshell?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the relationship between Nick and April progress from the beginning of the novel to the end? What are the key moments, and what are the obstacles Nick and April have to overcome? What gets them past each challenge? What are their prospects by the end?

Essay Topic 2

How does Nick’s relationship with his father develop over the course of the book? What is it like in the beginning, and what are the moments that change it? How has it changed by the end, and how do you know it has changed?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of Booked—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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