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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 reason does Nick give Mrs. Granger for not stopping using the word "frindle"?

2. What is happening in Mrs. Granger's room when the newspaper reporter arrives?

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

4. While they are talking with Mrs. Chatham, how does Nick's father look?

5. What makes the school secretary irritated when the newspaper reporter asks her about "frindle"?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What happens when the fifth grade picture is taken?

8. Why does Judy Morgan end up writing a story about the "frindle"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think that Mrs. Granger is a good teacher? What things does she do that probably make her a good teacher? What things do you think she could do better? Why do you think these things--that is, what do you think is important in a teacher, and what evidence do you have from the story that Mrs. Granger does or does not measure up to your standards?

Essay Topic 2

If you were a language arts teacher and one of your students made up a new word, how would you react? Give details of how you would feel, what you would say and do, and explain why.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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