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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Granger say about the dictionary?

2. Who is Nick's fifth-grade language arts teacher?

3. What is "phase two" of Nick's plan for his report?

4. How does Nick end up with extra homework on his first day of fifth grade?

5. What does Mrs. Granger like very, very much?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Avery react to Nick's blackbird noise?

2. In Chapter Six, "The Big Idea," how does Nick put his "frindle" plan into action?

3. Explain the three steps that lead to Nick's "frindle" plan.

4. What question does Nick ask at the end of class in Chapter Five, "The Report," and how does Mrs. Granger respond?

5. Who is James, and what does he have to do with Nick's homework?

6. What "question" does the title of Chapter Three refer to, and what happens when that question is asked?

7. What evidence is there in Chapter 4, "Word Detective," that Nick's family values reading?

8. In Chapter One, "Nick," what does Nick discover about blackbirds, and what does he do about it?

9. In Chapter Five, "The Report," what two reasons are there for Nick's nervousness about giving his report?

10. In Chapter Four, "Word Detective," why is Nick upset about doing his homework?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Frindle, Nick learns that the meanings of words come from a cultural agreement. Choose something else that is only "true" because as a culture we mostly all agree that it is true, and look up some information about your topic on the internet. (For instance, why do some cultures think that bugs are good to eat and others think that they are not? How did our standards of beauty come to be?) Write an essay about your topic, explaining what you find out in your research. Make sure to give credit to your sources.

Essay Topic 2

One type of prejudice that Nick's school shows is prejudice against nonstandard dialects of English. What is another type of prejudice that is sometimes shown in schools? What can be done to fix this problem? Be sure to give credit to any sources that you use as you write about prejudice in schools.

Essay Topic 3

What is your favorite word, and why? Write an essay that explains what about this word makes it just right to be your favorite word--show how the word relates to things you care about, your personality, or your beliefs about the world.

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