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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 Nick characterize him and his father living together alone?

2. What is the injury that pulls Nick’s team’s goalie out of the futsal game?

3. How many players are on each team in futsal?

4. What is Nick tormented by, after his parents tell him that they are separating?

5. What kind of job is Nick’s mother going to take?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nick end up talking to April, and what does he say?

2. What is the significance of “limerence” (114)?

3. How does Nick lose his bike?

4. What is the fallout of the fight Coby and Dean Eggleston have in the cafeteria?

5. What is the style of Booked?

6. What happens when Nick meets the Egglestons in the library?

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

8. What happens in Nick and April’s conversation after her swim practice?

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

10. How does Mr. MacDonald reprise Nick’s punishment assignment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Booked. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of women in Booked? How are women portrayed, and what kinds of roles are open to them? How would you evaluate Kwame Alexander’s depiction of female characters in this novel?

Essay Topic 3

How does the tension between books and soccer grow and develop and get resolved over the course of Booked? How is it defined in the beginning, what changes it, and what is it like at the end? What resolution has Nick arrived at?

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