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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Exposition.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

3. Whose room are Stevie and Susan Carol attempting to locate in Chapter 8?
(a) Tony Kornheiser's
(b) Jerry Ventura's.
(c) Chip Graber's.
(d) Dick Vitale's.

4. Who do Stevie and Susan Carol see with a man in gray suit at the news compound in Chapter 5?
(a) Tony Kornheiser.
(b) Dick Weiss.
(c) Reverend Anderson.
(d) Chip Graber.

5. In Chapter 6, Stevie comes up with a plan for Susan Carol to talk to different men to see if she recognizes what?
(a) The shoes of the blackmailer.
(b) The jacket of the blackmailer.
(c) The hat of the blackmailer.
(d) The voice of the blackmailer.

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) Rising Action.
(d) Denouement.

7. Susan Carol has what kind of accent in the novel?
(a) Irish.
(b) Midwestern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northeastern.

8. The coaches are being interviewed by the reporters from what news organization in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) CBS.
(b) ABC.
(c) FOX.
(d) NBC.

9. According to Chip's story in Chapter 10, Professor Whiting told Chip he had failed how many courses in the previous semester?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

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

12. Weiss explains that the lower seat tickets are selling for how much in Chapter 3?
(a) $1,600.
(b) $300.
(c) $2,500.
(d) $800.

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

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

15. When they try to pick up their media credentials, Stevie is given a hard time because he does not have what?
(a) A photo ID.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) A famous name.
(d) Both his parents with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What team is the other winner of the student reporter essay contest aside from Stevie a fan of?

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

3. In Chapter 9, Stevie and Susan Carol find the list of players' room numbers where?

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

5. What is the name of the head coach of Duke in the novel?

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