The Basketball Diaries Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Basketball Diaries Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim ask his mom for that makes her angry?
(a) Tickets to a baseball game.
(b) To make him dinner.
(c) $5.
(d) New clothes.

2. What do Jim and his team want to do after their victory at Riverdale?
(a) Start a fight with some Riverdale fans.
(b) Break into an ice cream shop.
(c) Play a prank on Riverdale.
(d) Get drunk, do reefer, and sniff glue.

3. In the fall of 1963, who is the neighbor taken away for mental health problems?
(a) Steve McQueen.
(b) Pedro.
(c) Bill Russell.
(d) Mrs. McNulty.

4. What does Jim check the almanac for when he gets home from school?
(a) Any record of fits tossed in one class of thirty people in one half a school day.
(b) A horoscope that might indicate how his basketball season will go.
(c) Strange weather patterns over New York City.
(d) When the next full moon will be.

5. Who does Jim plan to get drunk with in his new neighborhood?
(a) His mom.
(b) A few weed-heads.
(c) His cousin Kevin.
(d) A girl next door.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jim say his parents go to church?

2. How does Jim describe the guys in his new neighborhood?

3. What is Jim's motivation for getting along with his cousin's friends in Manhattan?

4. Why does Jim call Chris the "spiller"?

5. What does Jim say his eyes feel like when sniffing cleaning fluid?

(see the answer key)

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