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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornby often daydream about?
(a) Books.
(b) Women.
(c) Football.
(d) Music.

2. Where does Nick get teased when Arsenal loses?
(a) At football training.
(b) At school.
(c) At home.
(d) At the scout camp.

3. What team does Arsenal play on the fourteenth of October?
(a) Tottenham.
(b) Ipswich.
(c) Coventry.
(d) Liverpool.

4. When does Nick say he does not want to die?
(a) During a game.
(b) Before a game.
(c) At half-time.
(d) After a game.

5. What is the title of the third chapter of this section?
(a) A Fourth Division Town.
(b) Goodbye to All that.
(c) Supermac.
(d) My Second Childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Arsenal player makes obscene gestures to the Derby fans?

2. Where do the family Nick speaks to at the Reading game think he is from?

3. What does Hornby say helps him to fit in at school?

4. What game does Hornby write about in this book?

5. Who takes Nick to his first football game?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nick cope at Cambridge University?

2. How does Nick think football helps in at this stage in his life?

3. In what way does nick's mum support his obsession for Arsenal?

4. What are Nick's conditions for a perfect game?

5. Why does Nick enjoy the violence he witnesses at games?

6. In what way is the crowd different in the North Stand?

7. What does Nick say he thinks about Pele?

8. How does Nick show signs of the beginnings of his obsession with Arsenal in this section?

9. What does Nick say he feels about himself in retrospect?

10. How does Nick show his anger at his parent's divorce?

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