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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. Who did the Dragons play in 2014 at State?
(a) Golden State Warriors.
(b) Greenshaw Cougars.
(c) Manual Arts Toilers.
(d) Mater Del Monarchs.

2. When Marcus Haynes played college basketball, during a game with whom did he reveal his ball-handling skills?
(a) Southern.
(b) Morehouse.
(c) Hampton.
(d) Tuskegee.

3. In 1988 at the state tournament game, what is the score with seven seconds to go in the fourth quarter with the Dragons down?
(a) 50-56.
(b) 53-54.
(c) 48-51.
(d) 61-67.

4. What middle school did Ivan and Paris go to?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Montera.
(c) West Oakland.
(d) Bret Harte.

5. How tall was George Mikan, the Lakers' Center in 1948?
(a) 6 fee 2 inches.
(b) 6 feet 5 inches.
(c) 6 feet 8 inches.
(d) 6 feet 10 inches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large of a crowd assembled to watch the Harlem Globetrotters play the Minneapolis Lakers in 1948?

2. What was the score when the Dragons lost in 1988?

3. How many instructors quit before Naismith took his class?

4. How tall is Paris Austin?

5. In the Prologue, how long does Gene say that it took to finish his last graphic novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Dragons lose the tournament game Coach Lou's junior year in high school?

2. Why is Brian Shaw used as an example to show that Coach Phelps might have favored his white players over his Black players?

3. In the early days of basketball when there were no leagues at the national level, how did some teams take on ethnic themes to draw crowds to their games?

4. How long has Coach Lou been coaching at O'Dowd, and how many times has he taken to the Dragons to State?

5. How did Coach Lou change by his junior year?

6. Why does Weston Bell quit the Dragons and transfer to another school?

7. In the Prologue, what does Gene share about his last graphic novel and starting a new one?

8. What did scientists have to say about Black athletes at the turn of the twentieth century?

9. What does Gene do rather than go to the game the Dragons play against the Bishop Gorman Gaels?

10. What did Gene start doing after he finished college?

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