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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Susan Carol believes that the MSU staff member they encounter and obtain a keycard from has a list of what in Chapter 8?
(a) Players that are blackmailed.
(b) The players' rooms.
(c) Injured players.
(d) Games that are rigged.

2. As they approach the locker room, Susan Carol gets Stevie in by producing the letter stating they are what in Chapter 5?
(a) "Fully accredited media."
(b) "Only kept from sensitive areas."
(c) "Allowed to roam the stadium."
(d) "Only children."

3. Stevie wants to write about one of the players from what team but is deterred from doing so in Chapter 4?
(a) MSU.
(b) LSU.
(c) USC.
(d) Duke.

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

5. What is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Dialogue.

6. During what part of narrative plot is the basic internal conflict complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts and various obstacles?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Climax.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Rising Action.

7. In Chapter 5, Stevie starts to get antsy as they sit through what?
(a) A ceremony.
(b) Roll call.
(c) Press conferences.
(d) A basketball game.

8. Stevie and Susan Carol get introduced to what big ESPN newscaster in the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Dean Wojenski.
(b) Stuart Feeley.
(c) Jerry Ventura.
(d) Dick Vitale.

9. The essay winners and their parents have an opportunity to meet what famous sports writer in Chapter 2?
(a) President Keeley.
(b) Joe Mitch.
(c) Tony Kornheiser.
(d) Dick Weiss.

10. What refers to a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Climax.
(c) Rising action.
(d) Exposition.

11. 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?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Women atheletes.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Gambling.

12. Who do Stevie and Susan Carol identify as the blackmailer by his voice in Chapter 6?
(a) Joe Mitch.
(b) Dick Vitale.
(c) Coach K.
(d) Thomas Whiting.

13. When they try to pick up their media credentials, a guy from what organization gives Stevie a hard time?
(a) CIA.
(b) NBA.
(c) NCAA.
(d) MLB.

14. As they approach the locker room, who lets Susan Carol through but tries to stop Stevie in Chapter 5?
(a) Reverend Anderson.
(b) Coach K.
(c) The security guard.
(d) Tony Kornheiser.

15. What refers to an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student throughout a course?
(a) Athletic record.
(b) Report card.
(c) Collegiate equivalency record.
(d) Transcript.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Susan Carol and Stevie both tell their fathers that they have what in the morning?

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. When Stevie is waiting to check in at the hotel in Chapter 1, he is in line behind what famous sports reporter?

4. Susan Carol's father is responsible for founding a religious group for what?

5. Chip Garber is the star player of what team in the novel?

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