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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Stevie and Susan Carol part for dinner and plan to meet the next morning to go to the hotel where what team is staying?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) MSU.
(c) Duke University.
(d) Syracuse.

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

3. In Chapter 9, Stevie and Susan Carol discover that Chip Graber doesn't have what at the hotel?
(a) A suitcase.
(b) A room.
(c) A car.
(d) A roommate.

4. Where do Susan Carol and Stevie sit down to review what they know in Chapter 7?
(a) A library.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) The hotel lobby.
(d) A stadium entrance.

5. Susan Carol and Stevie run into a MSU staff member who gives them his keycard to get what in Chapter 8?
(a) A magazine article.
(b) Drinks.
(c) A playbook.
(d) Extra towels.

6. What news station is covering the sports event in the novel?
(a) NBC.
(b) CBS.
(c) FOX.
(d) ABC.

7. What does the NCAA stand for?
(a) The National Collegiate Athletic Association.
(b) The National Champion Atheletes Administration.
(c) The National Collegiate Atheletes Administration.
(d) The National College Academics Association.

8. What is Stevie's last name in the novel?
(a) Thompson.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Terrance.
(d) Treadwell.

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

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

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

12. 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 voice of the blackmailer.
(b) The hat of the blackmailer.
(c) The shoes of the blackmailer.
(d) The jacket of the blackmailer.

13. In Chapter 9, Stevie and Susan Carol find the list of players' room numbers where?
(a) The stadium office.
(b) Jerry Ventura's room.
(c) Chip Graber's room.
(d) The lockeroom.

14. Stevie decides to write his story about what in Chapter 5?
(a) Chip Graber.
(b) What it's like to be a kid reporter at the Final Four.
(c) A game being rigged.
(d) Coach K.

15. When Thomas Whiting first called Chip, he said he needed to discuss something about what, according to Chip in Chapter 10?
(a) Chip's mother.
(b) Chip's grandmother.
(c) Chip's grandfather.
(d) Chip's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chip's story in Chapter 10, Professor Whiting told Chip he had failed how many courses in the previous semester?

2. Stevie and Susan Carol get introduced to what big ESPN newscaster in the end of Chapter 3?

3. Which of the judges of the essay contest introduces himself to the parents and the kids in Chapter 2?

4. The other winner of the student reporter essay contest, aside from Stevie, is from where?

5. During what part of narrative plot is the basic internal conflict complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts and various obstacles?

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