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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the problem in the beginning of the story?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Rising Action.
(d) Climax.

2. When he meets Susan Carol on the court, Stevie asks her if she's been able to find who in Chapter 6?
(a) The man in the gray suit.
(b) Chip Graber.
(c) Dick Weiss.
(d) Bobby Kelleher.

3. Stevie became a huge basketball fan when his father started taking him to games of what informal association of college athletic programs?
(a) The Great Boston 8.
(b) The Philadelphia Big 5.
(c) The New York Small 7.
(d) The Chicago Mega 3.

4. What is the name of the head coach of Duke in the novel?
(a) Coach M.
(b) Coach N.
(c) Coach J.
(d) Coach K.

5. In Chapter 10, Chip treats Stevie and Susan Carol as though they are what?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Children.
(c) Sports fans.
(d) Reporters.

Short Answer Questions

1. The essay winners and their parents have an opportunity to meet a famous sports writer from what publication in Chapter 2?

2. Susan Carol says that when she interviewed Coach K for her essay she was also able to line up an interview with the coach from where in Chapter 3?

3. 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?

4. The sporting event Stevie has the opportunity to cover as a student reporter takes place in what city?

5. 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?

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