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

2. Who is Mrs. Freed?
(a) The school principal.
(b) A television reporter.
(c) The school secretary.
(d) A newspaper reporter.

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

4. What is in the envelope that gets delivered to the newspaper reporter at work on the morning after she interviews people at the school?
(a) A copy of Mrs. Granger's "frindle" punishment policy.
(b) A pen labeled "frindle."
(c) The fifth grade class picture.
(d) A statement from Nick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While they are talking with Mrs. Chatham, how does Nick's father look?

2. What does the school principal tell the newspaper reporter about the "frindle" problem?

3. What do the students tell the reporter they have started doing with the word "frindle"?

4. When the "frindle" story is on the national news, what other word do they tell the audience was made up by just one person?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "freedom of the press," and how is it related to this book?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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