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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims acknowledgment that the blackmailing plot is his in Chapter 17?

2. The FCA was founded in what year?

3. In Chapter 14, the dean catches Chip in a lie when he introduces Stevie as what?

4. Susan Carol discovers that Dean Wojenski lives in what city in Chapter 11?

5. Chip calls Stevie at what time in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lie do Stevie and Susan Carol devise in order to meet the dean in Chapter 13?

2. What famous sports journalist do Stevie and Susan Carol meet in Chapter 12?

3. How are Stevie and Susan Carol rescued in Chapter 17?

4. What plan do Chip, Stevie, and Susan Carol devise when splitting up with Chip in Chapter 11? Where do they go next?

5. What is the dean's response to Chip's story in Chapter 14?

6. What do Brill and Weiss suggest Stevie and Susan Carol do in Chapter 19?

7. Who does Steve Jurgenson ask Stevie and Susan Carol to give statements to in Chapter 18? Why?

8. What does the dean tell Susan Carol when she calls him in Chapter 12? Who does she encounter in the game?

9. What led Steve Jurgenson to follow Chip, Stevie and Susan Carol, according to his story in Chapter 18?

10. What relationship does Steve Jurgenson have with Coach Graber, according to his story in Chapter 18? What is the plan upon arriving at the arena?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define, identify, and analyze conflict in the narrative. What are the three principle types of conflict that a character can encounter in a literary or dramatic work? Which are at play for Stevie in Chapter 5? What internal conflicts does Stevie encounter?

Essay Topic 2

Describe, analyze and discuss the characters of Brill and Weiss in the novel. How do Stevie and Susan Carol feel about their assigned reporters? How seriously do Brill and Weiss take Stevie and Susan Carol when they are told about the conversation on the docks?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the blackmailing plot and Chip Graber's involvement. Why did Chip decide not to go to his father when Professor Whiting told him about his transcript? What would you have done under the circumstances? Why?

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