Frindle Chapters 4-6 story and vocabulary Rapid Fire

What kind of report did Nick have to write?

• About why he shouldn’t try to misbehave in class

• About dictionaries and where words come from

• About the history of frindles

• American history

How did Nick get even with the teacher who was getting even with him for wasting class time?

• By wasting more class time with his report

• By telling Mrs. Granger exactly what he thought of her

• By doing a report on a different subject than what he was supposed to write about

• By speaking in code only his classmates could understand

What did Mrs. Granger think of Nick’s report?

• She didn’t appreciate his mockery of the English language.

• She thought it was a little long, but otherwise good.

• She yawned throughout the entire thing but then clapped politely.

• She liked it so much she told the rest of the class to write their own reports.

What did Nick and the other fifth graders decide to do?

• To make Mrs. Granger miserable as she made them

• To start calling their teacher The Lone Granger to her face

• To never say homework again

• To never say pen again

Who told Nick he had control over what things are called?

• Janet Fisk

• His parents

• Mrs. Granger

• Manny the custodian

An oath can be described as:

• A type of pen

• A type of dictionary

• Something difficult

• A serious promise

Complex means:

• Difficult to understand

• A serious promise

• A type of chemical

• Something incompatible

Etymological means:

• To put in a form that can be seen, make real

• Related to an account of the roots and history of a word and its meaning

• The scientific study of humankind

• The science and study of animals

Profound means:

• Having a deep through understanding

• Not wide or broad

• Challenged

• Complex

Primly means:

• Darkly and in a way that seems forbidding

• Gracefully and beautifully

• Correctly and properly beyond what is needed

• Obnoxiously