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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stevie wants to include the number of references to student athletes, so he asks who to keep track of the number of references for him in Chapter 5?
(a) Tony Kornheiser.
(b) Bobby Kelleher.
(c) Dick Weiss.
(d) Thomas Whiting.

2. What is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Irony.
(d) Simile.

3. By what name is Susan Carol's father referred to in the novel?
(a) Mr. Thomas.
(b) Anders Anderson.
(c) Sir Anderson.
(d) Reverend Anderson.

4. The essay winners and their parents have an opportunity to meet a famous sports writer from what publication in Chapter 2?
(a) The Denver Post.
(b) The New York Daily News.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The L.A. Times.

5. In Chapter 3, Stevie and Susan Carol have to pose with what for pictures?
(a) The Duke team.
(b) Their plaques.
(c) A hockey stick.
(d) A basketball.

Short Answer Questions

1. The coaches are being interviewed by the reporters from what news organization in the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. When Stevie and Susan Carol read Professor Whiting's bio in the media program, they find out he sits on a sub-committee about what?

3. What news station is covering the sports event in the novel?

4. Which of the judges of the essay contest introduces himself to the parents and the kids in Chapter 2?

5. Dick Weiss tells Stevie and Susan Carol that it's in the moderator handbook to refer to the basketball players as what in Chapter 4?

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