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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. Where does Nick’s mother take him, after he cleans his room?

2. What card game do Nick and Coby play on the way to school?

3. What does Nick accuse his parents of?

4. How does Nick characterize him and his father living together alone?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main character like as a person?

2. How did it come to pass that Nick and Coby are on opposing soccer teams?

3. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the style of Booked?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the challenges Nick overcomes to make this book a rite of passage for him? How does he overcome these challenges, and what does he learn at each stage? What are the next set of challenges that come into view for Nick?

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

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?

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