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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gene show that he usually hurt when playing basketball?

2. 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?

3. What did Coach Lou weigh when he was a junior in high school?

4. At the end of Chapter 3, what does Coach Lou say Jeev's grade point average is?

5. How tall is Paris Austin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When the Dragons lose an exhibition game in Chapter 3, what conversation does Gene have with his wife?

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

4. How has Gene felt about sports since he was a little kid?

5. What does Gene learn about Ivan from a Sports Stars of Tomorrow video on YouTube?

6. Who created the game of basketball and when?

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

8. How did the game of basketball catch on?

9. How are Ivan and Paris alike and unalike?

10. How were the first games of basketball played?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jeevin is a Punjabi kid who practices the Sikh faith. What are similarities and differences between the Sikh faith and Catholicism? Why did Jeevin’s faith make it difficult for him to be at O’Dowd at first?

Essay Topic 2

Oderah and Arinze are brother and sister who played basketball together growing up. What type of relationship do the siblings have? How do they trash talk one another? What does trash talk reveal about their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Illustrations can be just as important as or more important than the words in a novel. How are illustrations used in Dragon Hoops? Are the illustrations less important, as important, or more important than the words in the book?

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