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

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

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

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

5. 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) Squirt.
(b) Quiz.
(c) Noggin.
(d) Jelly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tells the reporter "Mrs. Granger has kept Nick after school so much that everyone thinks she wants to adopt him" (63)?

3. When Mrs. Granger asks Nick to stay after school, how does he feel?

4. What does Bud Lawrence do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What starts happening to Nick at school and around town after the newspaper article is printed, and how does he feel about it?

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