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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. Who gets angry about the sand in the hallway?

2. Who is Nick's fifth-grade language arts teacher?

3. What question does Mrs. Granger stop Nick's report to ask at the very beginning?

4. Why do Nick and Janet miss the bus?

5. What kind of bird does Nick learn to do an impression of?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Six, "The Big Idea," how does Nick put his "frindle" plan into action?

2. How does Mrs. Avery react to Nick's blackbird noise?

3. What question does Nick ask at the end of class in Chapter Five, "The Report," and how does Mrs. Granger respond?

4. What evidence is there in Chapter 4, "Word Detective," that Nick's family values reading?

5. In Chapter Five, "The Report," what is Nick's plan to waste class time, and how does Mrs. Granger react?

6. In Chapter One, "Nick," what does Nick discover about blackbirds, and what does he do about it?

7. In Chapter One, "Nick," how does Nick turn his classroom into a tropical island?

8. Who is James, and what does he have to do with Nick's homework?

9. What "question" does the title of Chapter Three refer to, and what happens when that question is asked?

10. In Chapter Five, "The Report," what two reasons are there for Nick's nervousness about giving his report?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is your favorite word, and why? Write an essay that explains what about this word makes it just right to be your favorite word--show how the word relates to things you care about, your personality, or your beliefs about the world.

Essay Topic 2

One type of prejudice that Nick's school shows is prejudice against nonstandard dialects of English. What is another type of prejudice that is sometimes shown in schools? What can be done to fix this problem? Be sure to give credit to any sources that you use as you write about prejudice in schools.

Essay Topic 3

There are many surprises at the end of this book. One of the important things about surprise endings is that they are supposed to be "earned." This means that even if the reader does not predict the ending, after reading it the reader should think that it makes sense with the rest of the story. An "unearned" ending is not only a surprise, but the reader has no way to see how the rest of the story leads up to it. (For instance, the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" ended with the wolf becoming a tap dancer in a Broadway show, that would certainly be surprising--but it would not make any sense with the rest of the story.) Explain why the surprises at the end of this story are either earned or not earned by the rest of the book.

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