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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Stevie receives a letter that he is the winner of an essay contest from what organization?
(a) The U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
(b) Sports Illustrated.
(c) The North American Writers Union.
(d) The International Association of Sports Writers.

2. Stevie and Susan Carol part for dinner and plan to meet the next morning at what time in Chapter 7?
(a) 8:30 a.m.
(b) 10:15 a.m.
(c) 6:00 a.m.
(d) 11:45 a.m.

3. Susan Carol tells Stevie that she already did what for the day in Chapter 3?
(a) Called her parents.
(b) Finished her homework.
(c) Wrote her story.
(d) Went to church.

4. What provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the problem in the beginning of the story?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Rising Action.
(d) Climax.

5. During what part of narrative plot is the basic internal conflict complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts and various obstacles?
(a) Climax.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Rising Action.
(d) Denouement.

6. Stevie and Susan Carol overhear the guy in the gray suit and someone else talking about throwing a game so that who wins in Chapter 5?
(a) MSU.
(b) USC.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Duke.

7. In Chapter 3, Stevie and Susan Carol are attending what?
(a) The trophy presentation.
(b) The rules meeting.
(c) The awards breakfast.
(d) The coaches dinner.

8. The sporting event Stevie has the opportunity to cover as a student reporter takes place in what city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Denver.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Seattle.

9. Stevie decides to write his story about what in Chapter 5?
(a) Coach K.
(b) What it's like to be a kid reporter at the Final Four.
(c) Chip Graber.
(d) A game being rigged.

10. Susan Carol has what kind of accent in the novel?
(a) Southern.
(b) Northeastern.
(c) Midwestern.
(d) Irish.

11. What is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible object to represent a less tangible object or some intangible quality or idea?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Metaphor.

12. Stevie became a huge basketball fan when his father started taking him to games of what informal association of college athletic programs?
(a) The Chicago Mega 3.
(b) The Philadelphia Big 5.
(c) The New York Small 7.
(d) The Great Boston 8.

13. In Chapter 7, Stevie and Susan Carol discuss who they can trust with the information they overheard and decide to go to Brill and whom?
(a) Dick Weiss.
(b) Coach K.
(c) Dick Vitale.
(d) Thomas Whiting.

14. According to Chip's story in Chapter 10, Professor Whiting told Chip he had failed how many courses in the previous semester?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

15. 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) Rhetoric.
(b) Irony.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the judges of the essay contest introduces himself to the parents and the kids in Chapter 2?

2. What refers to the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel?

3. Who do Stevie and Susan Carol see with a man in gray suit at the news compound in Chapter 5?

4. Susan Carol and Stevie run into a MSU staff member who gives them his keycard to get what in Chapter 8?

5. Where do Susan Carol and Stevie sit down to review what they know in Chapter 7?

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