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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 Bud Lawrence do?
(a) He follows Nick around town teasing him.
(b) He interviews Nick for the television news.
(c) He creates pens with the word "frindle" on them.
(d) He writes a new dictionary with the word "frindle" in it.

2. Why does the author have many different characters repeat the sentence, "What is the meaning of this?" (68-69)?
(a) To make sure the reader knows how serious the problem is.
(b) To be funny.
(c) To show that characters are not really paying attention.
(d) To show the reader what is important.

3. Who is Mrs. Margaret Chatham?
(a) The president of the school board.
(b) The school principal.
(c) Nick's fifth grade math teacher.
(d) Pete's mother.

4. What is happening in Mrs. Granger's room when the newspaper reporter arrives?
(a) After school detention.
(b) The room is completely empty.
(c) Nick's language arts class.
(d) A school newspaper meeting.

5. How does Nick feel after the newspaper article is published?
(a) Angry and embarrassed.
(b) Awkward and pressured.
(c) Excited and happy.
(d) Sad and worried.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nick choose to introduce his new word to the school?

2. Who tells the reporter "it is not a battle" (61)?

3. Why does the principal allow the reporter to talk to Mrs. Granger?

4. What reason does Nick give Mrs. Granger for not stopping using the word "frindle"?

5. What does Mrs. Granger tell Nick about the word "pen"?

Short Essay Questions

1. After they first hear the word "frindle," how do the class and Mrs. Granger react?

2. What happens when the fifth grade picture is taken?

3. What reactions do Nick's mother and the school district have to the newspaper article about "frindle"?

4. What happens when Pete suggests that they try to get all of the fifth graders to ask Mrs. Granger for a "frindle"?

5. When the school principal comes to visit his parents, what game does it make Nick think of, and who does he think his mother and Mrs. Chatham are, in that game?

6. After class on the first day that Nick uses the word "frindle" in class, what does Mrs. Granger tell him?

7. What does Mrs. Granger tell the newspaper reporter in Chapter Ten, "Freedom of the Press"?

8. After what happens with the fifth grade picture, what does Mrs. Granger do?

9. Why does Judy Morgan end up writing a story about the "frindle"?

10. In Chapter Eight, "Mightier than the Sword," how does Nick feel when Mrs. Granger asks him to stay and talk to her after school, and why does he feel this way?

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