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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. When the reporter looks at what is in the envelope, what does she realize about her trip to the school?
2. How does Nick introduce his new word?
3. Why does the photographer not just take a different picture of the fifth grade class?
4. Why does Mrs. Granger not give Nick the letter that she has written to him?
5. Who is Alice Lunderson?
Short Essay Questions
1. After class on the first day that Nick uses the word "frindle" in class, what does Mrs. Granger tell him?
2. What is funny about the reporter's conversation with the students outside the school?
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. What is "freedom of the press," and how is it related to this book?
6. What starts happening to Nick at school and around town after the newspaper article is printed, and how does he feel about it?
7. After what happens with the fifth grade picture, what does Mrs. Granger do?
8. What happens when Pete suggests that they try to get all of the fifth graders to ask Mrs. Granger for a "frindle"?
9. What happens when the fifth grade picture is taken?
10. After they first hear the word "frindle," how do the class and Mrs. Granger react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nick's mom and dad react differently when the principal comes to their house to talk to them about what is happening at school. How does each react, and do you think that they both have a good point or that one is more right than the other? Why?
Essay Topic 2
This story was written at a time when people used paper dictionaries to look up words--which was much less quick and easy than just clicking on the word and asking Google what it means. How important are words to you? Do you think that your attitude would have been more like Nick's, or more like Mrs. Granger's, under these circumstances?
Essay Topic 3
Choose a word that was invented within the past twenty years and is now a part of the dictionary. Write an essay about where the word came from and how it spread. Make sure to give credit to your sources.
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