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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 and Susan Carol overhear the guy in the gray suit and someone else talking about throwing a game so that who wins in Chapter 5?
(a) Duke.
(b) MSU.
(c) Harvard.
(d) USC.

2. What is a literary device in which an author suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Symbolism.

3. What class does Thomas Whiting teach in the novel?
(a) Physics.
(b) Roman history.
(c) Ethics and morals.
(d) Probability and statistics.

4. What is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible object to represent a less tangible object or some intangible quality or idea?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Narrative.

5. The sporting event Stevie has the opportunity to cover as a student reporter takes place at what arena?
(a) The Superdome.
(b) Rogers Arena.
(c) Madison Square Garden.
(d) Wrigley Field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Whiting teaches at what university in the novel?

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

3. By what name is Susan Carol's father referred to in the novel?

4. What is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people?

5. Weiss explains that the lower seat tickets are selling for how much in Chapter 3?

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