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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. How do the students at Nick's school react when they hear about the class picture?

2. What does Mr. Allen do with the money from the sale of "frindle" items?

3. Who is Alice Lunderson?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Is Nick a student that most teachers would want to have in their class? What parts of his personality make him a positive part of a class, and what parts of his personality make him troublesome?

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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