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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 10, Chip says the blackmailing started on what night of the week, after they got home from winning the championship game that got MSU into the Final Four?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

4. Thomas Whiting teaches at what university in the novel?
(a) USC.
(b) MSU.
(c) Duke.
(d) Boise State.

5. Dick Weiss tells Stevie and Susan Carol that they have to write one story how often during the event in Chapter 3?
(a) Per month.
(b) Per day.
(c) Per week.
(d) Per hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What class does Thomas Whiting teach in the novel?

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

4. What refers to an inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student throughout a course?

5. Chip Garber's father holds what profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parts of the mystery are Susan Carol and Stevie still missing in Chapter 7? Who do they decide to talk with?

2. Who do Susan Carol and Stevie reveal the blackmailing plot to in Chapter 7? What is the response?

3. What is Chip Graber's role in the plot of Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery?

4. Who is Dick Weiss? How is he described in Chapter 3?

5. What is foreshadowed when Stevie and his father check into the hotel in Chapter 1?

6. What is Chip's response after Stevie and Susan Carol relate their story to him in Chapter 10?

7. How is Susan Carol described in Chapter 2? Where is Susan Carol from?

8. What is foreshadowed in Chip's conversation with Stevie and Susan Carol in Chapter 10?

9. How do Stevie and Susan Carol gain access to the floor with the players' rooms in Chapter 8?

10. What is ironic about the person Stevie and Susan Carol discover to be the blackmailer in Chapter 6?

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