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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What is the first thing Ben thinks about after hearing about his illness?
(a) His mother's reaction.
(b) Telling his brother.
(c) Finding a viable treatment.
(d) Finishing school.

5. 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 father is ill and in the hospital in another town.
(c) Her mother works the night shift.
(d) Her mother and father are on a trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rudy say when Ben asks him about having been a Catholic priest?

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

3. What does Ben think about the news that he is dying?

4. Why does Ben think his relationship with Dallas is getting complicated?

5. What project does Ben chose in Lambeer's class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ben find when he stops at Rudy's and what does Ben find out there? What does Rudy show him?

2. What happens to Ben's second date with Dallas?

3. Where does Ben go after he leaves Dallas's house and what is bothering him?

4. How does Lambeer find out what Ben is reading and what does he say about it?

5. What does Ben ask his father about his mother and what is his father's response?

6. What is the compromise between Ben and Dr. Wagner concerning Ben wanting to keep his illness a secret and what does the person tell him he goes to see?

7. Where does Dr. Wagner take Ben to learn more about his illness, what does he learn, and what does Ben decide to do for treatment?

8. What does the doctor tell Ben and what does the doctor do to be certain about his information?

9. What do Ben and Cody find when they get home, what does it tell them and what does their father say about the situation?

10. What does Ben want from his teachers in his senior year, what teacher is going to be a problem with his goal, and why might the teacher be an impediment?

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