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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 Ben think one universal thing is?
(a) Life.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

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

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

4. What does Lambeer ask Ben in early December?
(a) If he has considered changing his project.
(b) If he wants to work on a group extra credit project.
(c) If he knows he is failing.
(d) If he has finished his project.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dallas doing when Ben goes to her house?

2. What does Ben take Rudy?

3. Why does Ben decide not to tell Cody about his illness?

4. How does the coach feel about school work?

5. What does Ben say he is going to do anyway?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has changed in November for Ben with football, how is the team doing and what does Coach think about Cody? How does he feel about Ben and the team?

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

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

4. Where does Ben go after school almost everyday and what does he do there? How does Dallas feel about what he says about Joe Henry?

5. How is Ben feeling about Hey-Soos at the beginning of Chapter 11, why does Ben feel that way and what does Hey-Soos advise?

6. What does Ben tell Lambeer when the teacher asks him if he is going to change his project?

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

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

9. What does Ben's family do for Thanksgiving?

10. Why does Ben go to see Rudy at three in the morning, and what does he find there?

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