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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 do Nick and his friends plan for school picture day?
2. How do the students at Nick's school react when they hear about the class picture?
3. Who is Alice Lunderson?
4. Who is Mrs. Freed?
5. What is one of the nicknames that the students have for Mrs. Granger?
Short Essay Questions
1. What starts happening to Nick at school and around town after the newspaper article is printed, and how does he feel about it?
2. What is "freedom of the press," and how is it related to this book?
3. Why does Judy Morgan end up writing a story about the "frindle"?
4. 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?
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. What does Mrs. Granger tell the newspaper reporter in Chapter Ten, "Freedom of the Press"?
8. After what happens with the fifth grade picture, what does Mrs. Granger do?
9. What is funny about the reporter's conversation with the students outside the school?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
"Freedom of speech" does not mean that everyone is allowed to say whatever they want without having to face any consequences--it just means that the government is not allowed to stop people from saying what they want to say. Choose an example from real life or from a story when a person chose to express an idea that other people disagreed with. Explain what the idea was and what consequences the speaker faced. Finally, in the end of your essay, explain whether you think these consequences were fair, and why. Make sure to give credit to your sources.
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