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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the outcome when Nick and Coby’s team plays the girls team?
(a) They tie.
(b) They win 13-0.
(c) They lose 5-3.
(d) They win 5-3.

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

3. What does Miss Quattlebaum’s name mean, according to Nick?
(a) Foolish frog.
(b) Tiresome talker.
(c) Dirty sweater.
(d) Fruit tree.

4. What is “limerence”?
(a) A kind of fabric.
(b) A crush.
(c) A citrus fruit.
(d) The glow of a light.

5. What causes Ms. Hardwick to call Nick to the front of the class and read his notebook?
(a) The intensity on his face.
(b) The sneer on his lips.
(c) She sees what he is writing.
(d) The fact that he was sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nick Hall’s mother’s profession?

2. 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?

3. What is Nick Hall’s father’s profession?

4. Where have Nick and Coby’s teams been invited to play?

5. What does Nick wake up to, in the second poem of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

2. What is it that brings Nick’s mother back from Kentucky?

3. Who are the Egglestons and what is Nick’s relationship with them like?

4. What happens when Dean bursts in and interrupts Nick’s conversation with April?

5. How does Nick explain the leeway Mr. MacDonald gets from the students of Langston Hughes Middle School?

6. What is the bombshell Nick’s parents drop on him?

7. What is it that Nick describes as the “best six seconds ever” (98)?

8. How does Nick lose his bike?

9. What does Nick try to do, to get to sleep when he cannot sleep?

10. What does Mr. MacDonald give Nick in the library, and what are the conditions under which he gives it to him?

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