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

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

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

4. What is the deadline by which Nick and Coby have said they will both have girlfriends?

5. What do Dean and Don take from Nick?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Nick’s relationship with books and literature like?

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

7. What is the significance of the Dallas Cup?

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

9. What are the consequences of Nick’s limerence poem?

10. How is Nick’s team at futsal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think soccer has such a big following in Europe, but not as much in the U.S.? What is it about soccer that draws fans in, and why do you think American audiences have not connected with soccer as much? Why might the author have selected Soccer to be the main sport portrayed in Booked?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Booked. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Booked? What is the ideal reader for Booked likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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