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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ben understand about football that most do not?
(a) It is a game that reflects life.
(b) He understands the way the ball moves.
(c) He understands how to psych an opposing player.
(d) Different ways to read plays and counteract them.

2. Why do Cody and Ben come out of the Horseshoe Bend game heroes?
(a) They win an important argument with the referee.
(b) They make the winning touchdown.
(c) They keep the team together with the coach gone.
(d) They run a play that seems impossible.

3. Why is there no one home at Dallas's house after the dance?
(a) Her mother had to take Joe Henry out of town.
(b) Her mother works the night shift.
(c) Her father is ill and in the hospital in another town.
(d) Her mother and father are on a trip.

4. How much older is Ben than Cody?
(a) Eleven months.
(b) Sixteen months.
(c) They are twins.
(d) Two years.

5. What does Rudy show Ben when he stops by his room?
(a) His crucifix from being a priest.
(b) Rudy's football trophy from high school.
(c) His journal that he writes in daily.
(d) That he has a copy of Malcolm X's book, too.

6. What talk does Ben's father mention to Ben?
(a) The football talk.
(b) The mother is ill talk.
(c) The college talk.
(d) The sex talk.

7. What does Rudy say when Ben asks him about having been a Catholic priest?
(a) He does not want to talk about it.
(b) He tells Ben about his last church.
(c) He tells Ben he is no longer a Catholic.
(d) He tells him about seminary.

8. What does Coach ask Ben about football?
(a) If he understands the rules of the game.
(b) If he has ever played football before.
(c) If he doesn't think football is too rough for him.
(d) Why he wants to play.

9. What changes the Horseshoe Bend game on the day of the game?
(a) Ben is in the hospital.
(b) Sooner has a broken collarbone.
(c) The coach is sick.
(d) Cody has hurt his knee.

10. What does Sooner do in the locker room?
(a) Breaks a bench when he jumps on it.
(b) Slips and falls on the wet floor.
(c) Hits a locker with his fist.
(d) Picks a fight with other players.

11. What does Ben explain to Dr. Wagner?
(a) He doesn't talk to the doctor about dying.
(b) That he is going to look for treatments.
(c) That Ben always knew he was going to die young.
(d) That he thought he would live to be a hundred.

12. What is the worse part to Ben about dying?
(a) Not having any children.
(b) Possibly being in a lot of pain.
(c) Missing out on college.
(d) How it affects the ones he loves.

13. Why did Ben's parents hold him back in school?
(a) So he could grow.
(b) He was not talking yet.
(c) He learned to read late.
(d) He was sick when he was suppose to start school.

14. Where does Ben tell Dallas he is planning to go?
(a) To UC Davis.
(b) To his grandparents' house.
(c) To her volleyball game.
(d) To the lake.

15. What does Ben talk to Hey-Soos about in Chapter 6?
(a) His brother.
(b) His illness.
(c) His mother.
(d) His time with Dallas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cody's nickname at school?

2. What does Ben enjoy about the dance in Chapter 6?

3. What does Ben plan to win in his senior year?

4. Where does Dr. Wagner take Ben in August?

5. What is the first thing Ben thinks about after hearing about his illness?

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