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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 31-61.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book have Nick’s parents required him to read?
(a) His mother’s training manuals.
(b) A biography of Pelé.
(c) His father’s dictionary Weird and Wonderful Words.
(d) His father’s copy of the Bible.

2. Where have Nick and Coby’s teams been invited to play?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Santa Fe.

3. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?
(a) The silence of an empty house.
(b) The sound of his friend arriving.
(c) The smell of bacon.
(d) The sound of his parents fighting.

4. What is the word that describes the fact that Nick complains about footnotes in a book, and then includes a footnote to support his complaint?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Irony.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Contradiction.

5. What is Nick tormented by, after his parents tell him that they are separating?
(a) Fainting spells.
(b) Stomach aches.
(c) Asthma attacks.
(d) Hallucinations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of award does Mr. MacDonald have in his room?

2. Whose book is Nick’s father reading, while Nick does his homework?

3. Where does Nick’s mother say she is going to take a job?

4. What is it that gives Nick the sense that things are not right with his parents?

5. Where do the Eggleston twins go to school?

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