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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Dr. Wagner take Ben in August?
(a) Provo, Utah.
(b) New York.
(c) Salt Lake City.
(d) Denver.
2. What does the song Ben hears on his player say about dying?
(a) Dying young and getting a lot of attention.
(b) Waiting until you're too old to die young.
(c) Dying old and in bed.
(d) The world is a rotten place so die young.
3. What is the first thing Ben thinks about after hearing about his illness?
(a) Telling his brother.
(b) Finishing school.
(c) His mother's reaction.
(d) Finding a viable treatment.
4. Where do the players go after the coach talks to them?
(a) A special luncheon.
(b) Home.
(c) To the practice field.
(d) To his house for dinner.
5. What does the coach remind the players of in his first talk to them?
(a) The rules on and off the field.
(b) That winning is everything.
(c) That football is more important than academics.
(d) That losing is not all bad.
6. What does Ben plan to win in his senior year?
(a) A scholarship to Harvard.
(b) The annual golf tournament.
(c) The state cross country meet.
(d) The most valuable player on the football teach.
7. How does Cody and Ben's mother feel about the game?
(a) She is thrilled.
(b) She is not there.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She is afraid for them to play football.
8. Why do Ben and Cody want their team to do well at the Horseshoe Bend game?
(a) They are their traditional rivals.
(b) Their cousin plays for them.
(c) They have beat everyone this season.
(d) So the scouts see Cody in a good light.
9. Who is Marla Dawson?
(a) Cody's girlfriend.
(b) A girl Ben wants to date.
(c) Ben's therapist.
(d) Ben's next door neighbor.
10. What does Ben tell Dr. Wagner about his parents?
(a) He will tell them in a couple of weeks.
(b) He will tell them that night.
(c) Dr. Wagner can meet with them.
(d) He does not want them to know about his illness.
11. What does the doctor do after he tells Ben about his illness?
(a) Take another blood sample.
(b) Admit Ben to the hospital.
(c) Call Ben's parents.
(d) Set up an appointment for treating Ben.
12. What does Ben think most people do in their senior year of high school?
(a) Goof-off.
(b) Do pretty much what they were doing before.
(c) Work harder than any other year.
(d) Ben doesn't mention this issue.
13. What is wrong with Ben's mother?
(a) She is an alcoholic.
(b) She is a schizophrenic.
(c) She is manic-depressive.
(d) She has early dementia.
14. What project does Ben chose in Lambeer's class?
(a) To change the curriculum for some classes at the high school.
(b) To have a street named for Malcom X.
(c) To write a memoir.
(d) To change the laws about gay marriage.
15. What does Ben talk to Hey-Soos about in Chapter 6?
(a) His time with Dallas.
(b) His illness.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do Cody and Ben come out of the Horseshoe Bend game heroes?
2. What does Rudy show Ben when he stops by his room?
3. What is the reason Dallas gives Ben for her having had sex with him?
4. Where does Ben tell Dallas he is planning to go?
5. What bothers Ben about his relationship with Dallas?
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