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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 Mrs. Granger asks Nick to stay after school, how does he feel?

2. How does Nick introduce his new word?

3. Why does the author have many different characters repeat the sentence, "What is the meaning of this?" (68-69)?

4. What is one of the nicknames that the students have for Mrs. Granger?

5. What do the students tell the reporter they have started doing with the word "frindle"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

In Frindle, Nick learns that the meanings of words come from a cultural agreement. Choose something else that is only "true" because as a culture we mostly all agree that it is true, and look up some information about your topic on the internet. (For instance, why do some cultures think that bugs are good to eat and others think that they are not? How did our standards of beauty come to be?) Write an essay about your topic, explaining what you find out in your research. Make sure to give credit to your sources.

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