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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stevie wants to write about one of the players from what team but is deterred from doing so in Chapter 4?
(a) LSU.
(b) Duke.
(c) USC.
(d) MSU.

2. In Chapter 5, Stevie starts to get antsy as they sit through what?
(a) Press conferences.
(b) A ceremony.
(c) Roll call.
(d) A basketball game.

3. What is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Simile.
(d) Irony.

4. Stevie and Susan Carol part for dinner and plan to meet the next morning to go to the hotel where what team is staying?
(a) MSU.
(b) Syracuse.
(c) Duke University.
(d) North Carolina.

5. Where do Susan Carol and Stevie sit down to review what they know in Chapter 7?
(a) A library.
(b) The hotel lobby.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A stadium entrance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, Stevie and Susan Carol tell their story to Chip, and Chip says there is nothing they can do about what?

2. What provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the problem in the beginning of the story?

3. According to Chip's story in Chapter 10, Professor Whiting told Chip he had failed how many courses in the previous semester?

4. Stevie wants to include the number of references to student athletes, so he asks who to keep track of the number of references for him in Chapter 5?

5. Stevie became a huge basketball fan when his father started taking him to games of what informal association of college athletic programs?

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