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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. How does the coach feel about school work?
(a) He pushes his players to do well.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) He thinks football is more important.
(d) He thinks it is more important than football.

2. What does Coach say about the Malcolm X project?
(a) Coach does not understand why Ben is being so stubborn.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Coach admires Ben for sticking to his beliefs.
(d) Coach wishes Ben would confine it to the English class.

3. What does Rudy confess to Ben?
(a) He is a child molester.
(b) He was kicked out of the priesthood for being gay.
(c) He was raped by his uncle.
(d) He was never a priest.

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

5. Why is Ben upset with Hey-Soos?
(a) Hey-Soos doesn't understand about Dallas.
(b) He thinks Hey-Soos doesn't care if he lives or dies.
(c) Hey-Soos criticizes Ben.
(d) Hey-Soos keeps giving him platitudes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben find when he visits Rudy?

2. What does Ben say about Lambeer's teaching?

3. What did Rudy think Ben was going to do earlier?

4. What does Ben tell Hey-Soos about how he is feeling physically?

5. What is Cody doing on Christmas Eve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rudy's note to Ben say and what is Ben's response?

2. What does Ben do about his therapist's assignment?

3. What is happening to Ben's attitude, why and what does he begin to do because of it?

4. What happens in Ben's first confrontation with Rudy's drinking?

5. What do Ben and Hey-Soos talk about in their first conversation after the Coach's demonstration?

6. Where does Ben stop after leaving Rudy's, and what does he find out there?

7. What does Lambeer tell Ben about Ben's project and what is Ben's response?

8. What other school official becomes involved in the debate about Ben's project, what does this official do and what does Ben tell him?

9. How does Ben feel about his secret on Christmas Eve, what does Hey-Soos tell him and what does Ben decide to do?

10. What does Ben ask Coach about his book report, how does one of the students respond and what does Coach do to demonstrate democracy to the class?

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