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

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

3. 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) Alcoholism.
(b) Women atheletes.
(c) Drug use.
(d) Gambling.

4. The other winner of the student reporter essay contest, aside from Stevie, is named what?
(a) Dick Vitale.
(b) Stuart Feeley.
(c) Susan Carol Anderson.
(d) Thomas Whiting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Susan Carol and Stevie run into what MSU staff member who gives them his keycard to go to his room in Chapter 8?

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

3. Who do Stevie and Susan Carol identify as the blackmailer by his voice in Chapter 6?

4. In Chapter 10, Chip treats Stevie and Susan Carol as though they are what?

5. Susan Carol and Stevie run into a MSU staff member who gives them his keycard to get what in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dick Weiss teach Stevie in Chapter 3? What does Stevie learn about the process of journalism?

2. How does Susan Carol help Stevie get into the locker room in Chapter 5?

3. Who contacted Chip when the blackmailing began, according to his story in Chapter 10? Why?

4. What is foreshadowed upon Stevie's meeting Susan Carol in Chapter 2? What does Dick Weiss suggest Stevie read?

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

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

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

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

9. How is the awards breakfast described in Chapter 3? What does Dick Weiss tell the kids about their assignment?

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

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