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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 does April’s father tell Nick that April wants to tattoo the word limerence?

2. What kind of car does April’s father give Nick and Coby a ride in?

3. Why does Winifred show up at Nick’s house?

4. How did Nick’s family hear about his desire to be dead?

5. How does Nick say he is doing in school when he texts his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nick’s visit with April like?

2. How does Nick explain what happened that caused him to end up in therapy?

3. How does Nick characterize Coby’s play in the game their teams play?

4. How do Nick’s parents handle his hospitalization?

5. What report does Coby give Nick of the Dallas Cup?

6. Why does Nick waffle about asking April out?

7. Why does Nick miss the Dallas Cup?

8. How does the psychologist help Nick deal with his parents’ split?

9. What does Nick learn about Mr. MacDonald’s dragonfly box?

10. What happens when Nick confronts the Egglestons at Charlene’s pool party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Booked is a book that purports to be about soccer, but in the end, soccer plays a very limited role. What does the soccer thread get you to focus on as a reader, and how does Kwame Alexander use the promise of a soccer story and the Dallas Cup to build narrative interest before he swerves into more personal-growth type events for Nick?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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