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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Allen tell Mrs. Chatham when Mrs. Chatham finishes explaining the problem at school?
(a) She wants her son removed from Mrs. Granger's class.
(b) She is embarrassed that Nick ruined the fifth grade picture.
(c) She thinks that the school is making a big deal over nothing.
(d) She is very sorry that her son has been disrespectful.

2. What makes the school secretary irritated when the newspaper reporter asks her about "frindle"?
(a) She has never really like Nick.
(b) She is tired of talking to reporters.
(c) She thinks that making up a word is ridiculous.
(d) She has to talk to parents about it all day.

3. What reason does Nick give Mrs. Granger for not stopping using the word "frindle"?
(a) He has a right to speak however he chooses.
(b) He is trying to make an important point about language.
(c) He and his friends have taken an oath.
(d) He knows it upsets her.

4. Who tells Nick that calling a pen a "frindle" is a funny idea?
(a) Janet.
(b) Pete.
(c) Mrs. Granger.
(d) John.

5. How does Nick introduce his new word?
(a) He pretends to have forgotten his pen.
(b) He puts up a poster with a pen on it.
(c) He starts a pretend argument about who took his pen.
(d) He gives everyone in class a new pen.

6. How do the students at Nick's school react when they hear about the class picture?
(a) They all start using the word "frindle."
(b) They all try to think of something funny to do in their class pictures.
(c) They think it was wrong to spoil the picture.
(d) They think it is great that Nick and his friends upset the teachers.

7. Why does Mrs. Granger not give Nick the letter that she has written to him?
(a) She says that she will only send it if he keeps using the word "frindle."
(b) She wants to read it out loud to him.
(c) She does not want him to read it until after everything is over.
(d) She says that she is not yet sure she wants to give it to him.

8. How does Mrs. Granger respond to the students using the word so much after picture day?
(a) She makes Nick stay after school and write an apology for the spoiled picture.
(b) She tries to ignore it.
(c) She announces that she will punish anyone who uses the word "frindle."
(d) She makes up her own silly word for "pen."

9. What does the school principal tell the newspaper reporter about the "frindle" problem?
(a) The students are teaching Mrs. Granger an important lesson.
(b) It is just a false rumor, and nothing really happened.
(c) The students are just trying to be disrespectful.
(d) It is just a prank.

10. Who is Alice Lunderson?
(a) A newspaper reporter.
(b) The school principal.
(c) A television reporter.
(d) The school secretary.

11. What do Nick and his friends plan for school picture day?
(a) All of the fifth graders tape a picture of a pen labeled "frindle" to their shirts before getting their pictures taken.
(b) The fifth graders hold up pens and say "frindle" when their class picture is taken.
(c) He and his friends all hold up signs that say "frindle" during the class photo.
(d) He and his friends stand together and spell out the letters "F-R-I-N-D-L-E" with their hands in the class photo.

12. Why does the photographer not just take a different picture of the fifth grade class?
(a) He thinks that the picture is funny.
(b) There is not enough time.
(c) He is out of film.
(d) He does not realize what they have done.

13. When Mrs. Granger asks Nick to stay after school, how does he feel?
(a) Angry.
(b) Scared.
(c) Regretful.
(d) Excited.

14. When the "frindle" story is on the national news, what other word do they tell the audience was made up by just one person?
(a) Jelly.
(b) Quiz.
(c) Squirt.
(d) Noggin.

15. What do the students tell the reporter they have started doing with the word "frindle"?
(a) They are making t-shirts with the word on them.
(b) They are trying to get their older siblings to start using the word, too.
(c) They are trying to use it in assignments whenever they can.
(d) They have started writing it in their punishment sentences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the envelope that gets delivered to the newspaper reporter at work on the morning after she interviews people at the school?

2. What is happening in Mrs. Granger's room when the newspaper reporter arrives?

3. On page 67 of Chapter Eleven, "Extra! Extra! Read All About It!" there is a reference to "Mr. Webster." Who is Mr. Webster?

4. What does Bud Lawrence do?

5. Who has the idea to get every fifth grader to ask Mrs. Granger for a "frindle"?

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