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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doe Nick’s father add to mac-and-cheese?
(a) Tabasco sauce.
(b) Hamburger meat.
(c) Worcestershire sauce.
(d) Mustard.

2. When does April tell Nick to meet her?
(a) After dinner.
(b) After swim class.
(c) Before school.
(d) At lunch.

3. What is the injury that pulls Nick’s team’s goalie out of the futsal game?
(a) Broken toe.
(b) Plantar fasciitis.
(c) Bloody nose.
(d) Head laceration.

4. What is Mr. MacDonald’s favorite animal?
(a) Dog.
(b) Chameleon.
(c) Dragonfly.
(d) Butterfly.

5. What does Nick say gives everything else in his life meaning?
(a) Books.
(b) Soccer.
(c) April.
(d) Coby.

6. What does Nick tell Mr. MacDonald his favorite book is?
(a) He does not answer the question.
(b) Lord of the Flies.
(c) Tuck Everlasting.
(d) Huck Finn.

7. What does Dean impugn of Coby’s?
(a) His looks.
(b) His family’s wealth.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His race.

8. How does Nick characterize the morning of his mother’s return?
(a) Ominously quiet.
(b) Just like old times.
(c) Eerie and unprecedented.
(d) Otherworldly.

9. What does April compliment when she sees Nick after her swim practice?
(a) His jeans.
(b) His bicycle.
(c) His backpack.
(d) His jacket.

10. Where does Nick’s mother say she is going to take a job?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Nashville.

11. Why does Mr. MacDonald say readers read?
(a) To be hungry for knowledge.
(b) To be satisfied with knowing.
(c) To discover other people and places.
(d) To discover themselves.

12. What does Nick’s father say happened when he stood up against the kid who was bullying him?
(a) He regretted hurting the kid.
(b) He beat the kid up.
(c) He lost the fight, and lost standing.
(d) He lost the fight, but get respect.

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

14. What does Mr. MacDonald tell Nick when he complains about his parents?
(a) That he will have submit to them.
(b) That they know best.
(c) That they are his chance to be loved.
(d) That they are not happy about it either.

15. What kind of award does Mr. MacDonald have in his room?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Writers Guild.
(c) Tony.
(d) Grammy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick’s father instruct Nick to do, when Nick leaves the house?

2. What causes Ms. Hardwick to call Nick to the front of the class and read his notebook?

3. Where does Nick invite his mother to for the weekend?

4. Why does Nick’s mockery of Don’s name not help him?

5. What does Nick say Coby’s house smells like?

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