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

2. What does Nick say love and happiness sink in when his mother leaves?

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

4. What kind of dance does Nick get to do with April?

5. Why does Nick not play football?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

5. What is the style of Booked?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the role of women in Booked? How are women portrayed, and what kinds of roles are open to them? How would you evaluate Kwame Alexander’s depiction of female characters in this novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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