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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Ben ask Coach?
(a) About the Coach's dead son.
(b) About playing in an impromtu game of hoops.
(c) About why the Coach allowed Ben on the team.
(d) His girlfriend who had died.

2. Why does the coach bring Thanksgiving dinner to Ben's house?
(a) He does it every year.
(b) Their mother has crashed again.
(c) His wife made too much food.
(d) His family is out of town.

3. What does the coach do to prove a point about democracy?
(a) Makes the class read The Gulag Archipelago.
(b) Burn a book.
(c) Burns a flag.
(d) Have an election.

4. What does Hey-Soos say about people?
(a) They are not always what you expect.
(b) They are superficial.
(c) They do not care about themselves enough.
(d) They are only going to die in the end.

5. Who else besides Lambeer tries to change Ben's mind?
(a) His brother.
(b) The principal.
(c) His father.
(d) The librarian.

6. What examples does Ben use of prejudice and racism?
(a) Martin Luther King and Rodney King.
(b) Hurricane Katrina and 9/11.
(c) Rodney King and Hurricane Katrina.
(d) 9/11 and Martin Luther King.

7. Who does Ben go visit?
(a) Mr. Lambeer.
(b) Coach.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Rudy.

8. What does Rudy share with Ben?
(a) Rudy's beliefs.
(b) Rudy's emotional pain.
(c) The name of Rudy's family.
(d) That Rudy believes Ben will live.

9. What does Ben say he is better at than Rudy?
(a) Running.
(b) Praying.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Believing in himself.

10. How many signatures has Ben garnered for his project by mid-January?
(a) 12.
(b) Most of the town.
(c) Just his own.
(d) 3.

11. How does Ben feel about spending so much time with Joe Henry?
(a) He enjoys it.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) He hates it.
(d) He is bored by it.

12. What kind of list does Ben make?
(a) Of the names he would give his children if he lives.
(b) Of things he wants to do before he dies.
(c) Of the ways he can help himself get well.
(d) Of all the reasons he feels blessed.

13. What does Ben ask in Coach's class?
(a) If he can change his book.
(b) If Coach would teach a truth he doesn't like.
(c) If he can write a paper instead of do a project.
(d) If he can quit coming.

14. Who are two people Ben decides to definitely tell?
(a) Cody and Dallas.
(b) No one besides Coach.
(c) Dallas and Rudy.
(d) Cody and his dad.

15. Why does Ben decide not to tell Cody about his illness?
(a) Because Ben is still hoping for a miracle.
(b) Because Cody might decide not to go off to college.
(c) Because it's Christmas Eve.
(d) Because Ben believes Cody would be angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben tell Dallas about the future?

2. What does Ben tell Rudy Ben appreciates?

3. What happens when Ben goes out to run?

4. What does Rudy say is the reason Malcolm X was hated by many?

5. What does Ben take Rudy?

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