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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 tall is Paris Austin?
(a) 5 feet 11 inches.
(b) 5 feet 10 inches.
(c) 6 feet 2 inches.
(d) 6 feet 3 inches.
2. With how many minutes left in a game between the Syracuse Nationals and the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, did the ball get loose and Pop Gates and Chick Meehan went after it?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 7 minutes.
(c) 4 minutes.
(d) 6 minutes.
3. How tall was the shortest Harlem Globetrotter Marques Haynes?
(a) 6 feet 1 inch.
(b) 6 feet.
(c) 5 feet 11 inches.
(d) 6 feet 2 inches.
4. When did Mike Phelps, Coach Lou's coach during his high school years, become the men's varsity basketball coach at O'Dowd?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1981.
5. Why does Coach Lou remember that when he took Ivan home a few times his freshman year that they could not get to his block?
(a) There was a riot.
(b) There was construction.
(c) Gangs were in the street.
(d) The police had it blocked off.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the Prologue, how long does Gene say that it took to finish his last graphic novel?
2. When did Coach Lou graduate from O'Dowd?
3. After the first game of basketball, how much longer do the men ask to play?
4. How many seniors are on the Dragon team in Chapter 2?
5. When was dribbling first used in basketball competition?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was basketball developed over the years?
2. What does Gene do rather than go to the game the Dragons play against the Bishop Gorman Gaels?
3. How did Coach Lou get interested in basketball?
4. What did scientists have to say about Black athletes at the turn of the twentieth century?
5. How does Gene find his next story?
6. How did the game of basketball catch on?
7. How did Coach Lou change by his junior year?
8. When the Dragons lose an exhibition game in Chapter 3, what conversation does Gene have with his wife?
9. Why did the Dragons lose the tournament game Coach Lou's junior year in high school?
10. After the 1946-47 season, why were Blacks in the National Basketball League (NBL), removed from teams in the league?
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