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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stevie and Susan Carol overhear the guy in the gray suit and someone else talking about throwing what game in Chapter 5?
(a) Sunday's game.
(b) Monday's game.
(c) Thursday's game.
(d) Wednesday's game.

2. Stevie and Susan Carol part for dinner and plan to meet the next morning at what time in Chapter 7?
(a) 11:45 a.m.
(b) 6:00 a.m.
(c) 10:15 a.m.
(d) 8:30 a.m.

3. As the winner of an essay contest, Stevie has the opportunity to cover what sports event as a student reporter?
(a) The Final Four basketball games.
(b) The Super Bowl.
(c) The Stanley Cup.
(d) The World Series.

4. After returning to the press room, Stevie checks with his editor, and the editor tells him what in Chapter 7?
(a) His story needs to be longer.
(b) He needs to do more interviews.
(c) His story is too long.
(d) His story is well done.

5. 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) Irony.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Simile.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Stevie and Susan Carol identify as the blackmailer by his voice in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 1, Stevie receives a letter that he is the winner of an essay contest from what organization?

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

4. In Chapter 6, Stevie comes up with a plan for Susan Carol to talk to different men to see if she recognizes what?

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

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