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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 does Mrs. Granger respond to the students using the word so much after picture day?
2. Why does the photographer not just take a different picture of the fifth grade class?
3. How does Nick introduce his new word?
4. After his meeting with Mrs. Granger in Chapter Eight, "Mightier than the Sword," what does Nick suddenly realize?
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. 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?
3. After they first hear the word "frindle," how do the class and Mrs. Granger react?
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. What is funny about the reporter's conversation with the students outside the school?
6. What reactions do Nick's mother and the school district have to the newspaper article about "frindle"?
7. After what happens with the fifth grade picture, what does Mrs. Granger do?
8. Why does Judy Morgan end up writing a story about the "frindle"?
9. What does Mrs. Granger tell the newspaper reporter in Chapter Ten, "Freedom of the Press"?
10. What happens when the fifth grade picture is taken?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Mrs. Chatham's real attitude toward the "frindle" situation? Think about what she says when she speaks with Nick's parents, what she says to the reporter, and what she says to Mrs. Granger. Why does she say slightly different things to different people? What things always stay the same, no matter who she speaks to? Explain using evidence from the story what you think her real feelings are, and why.
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
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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