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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 eat at night, to settle his stomach?
2. What book does Mr. MacDonald bring Nick in the hospital?
3. What is it that keeps Nick from asking April to be his girlfriend?
4. What does Nick’s mother offer to do when they get home from the hospital?
5. What does Nick have with his mac-and-cheese for dinner, on the night when he thinks everything is going to be okay?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens in the conversation between Nick and Coby when Coby comes to visit him in the hospital?
2. What present does Nick present Mr. MacDonald with?
3. How does Nick end up being pulled out of the game against Coby’s team?
4. What is left to be resolved at the end of Booked?
5. What is Nick’s favorite part of Into the Dust?
6. How does Nick’s stomach affect his friendship with April and his soccer match?
7. What is the relationship like between Nick’s soccer team and Coby’s?
8. What signs does Nick have that things are all getting back to normal and even getting good?
9. What happens when Nick calls April after he is out of the hospital?
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
How does Kwame Alexander portray parents and the world of adults in Booked? What kinds of things are reserved for parents alone? What kinds of things do kids and parents have in common with parents? What kinds of access do the younger characters get, to the parents’ knowledge and authority, by the end of the book?
Essay Topic 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
When is Booked most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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