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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. While they are talking with Mrs. Chatham, how does Nick's father look?
(a) Angry.
(b) Bored.
(c) Embarrassed.
(d) Amused.

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

3. Who has the idea to get every fifth grader to ask Mrs. Granger for a "frindle"?
(a) Janet.
(b) John.
(c) Nick.
(d) Pete.

4. What does Mrs. Granger tell Nick about the word "pen"?
(a) It comes from another language and so it is not really an English word, anyway.
(b) She does not like the word either, but that does not mean Nick can just replace it.
(c) It is her favorite word.
(d) It has a long history and makes sense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nick and his friends plan for school picture day?

2. What does Mrs. Allen tell Mrs. Chatham when Mrs. Chatham finishes explaining the problem at school?

3. Why does the author have many different characters repeat the sentence, "What is the meaning of this?" (68-69)?

4. How does Mrs. Granger respond to the students using the word so much after picture day?

5. Why does Mrs. Granger not give Nick the letter that she has written to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. When the television reporter comes to interview Nick, what two things does Mrs. Allen do to try to make sure that the interview goes well?

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

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

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

8. What is funny about the reporter's conversation with the students outside the school?

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

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

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