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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 the idea in Chapter 19, which Two Down shares with Ray, to get himself out of trouble?
(a) Challenge Concorde to a double or nothing bet.
(b) Sell the pictures to a newspaper.
(c) Sell Ray's club to pay off Concorde.
(d) Leave his wife.

2. When Ray looks up information on his club, what does he find out?
(a) It's worth double what his father offered.
(b) It's a fake.
(c) It's hardly worth anything.
(d) It's worth enough to get Two Down out of trouble.

3. Whom does Crowbar offer to help?
(a) Ray.
(b) Two Down.
(c) Ray's father.
(d) Concorde.

4. How are the details of Ray's plan confirmed while he is at home?
(a) He sees a news story about The Mayflower Club.
(b) His father calls to confirm.
(c) Two Down calls to confirm.
(d) Madeline comes over.

5. What is the plan in Chapter 18 that someone comes up with to get Two Down out of his predicament?
(a) Blackmail.
(b) Murder.
(c) Kidnapping.
(d) Theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ray jokingly suggest as a solution for Two Down's trouble?

2. How does Two Down change after the match?

3. Who else had looked up information on Ray's club?

4. What is the atmosphere at Ponky's in the Epilogue?

5. Two Down was threatened with getting fired, a recall on his home loan, and ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How do things end for Ray and Dannie?

2. What might be Ray's motivation for intentionally committing a violation in the last round, forcing the match to end in a tie?

3. When Thud comes back with photos of Concorde's affair, what do the Chops realize about the "mistress," and what do they decide to do about the information?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 24, what does Ray's father offer him? What does Ray do?

5. What is the one solution Ray proposes for Two Down's problem that Two Down takes seriously?

6. In Chapter 16, after The Bet is over, how have the dynamics at Ponky changed?

7. When Crowbar arrives at the match, what does he reveal about Two Down?

8. What plan does Thud come up with to help Two Down instead of kidnapping?

9. After doing research at the library on his special club, the MacGregor 693, what does Ray find out?

10. Why does Madeline get angry and leave Madeline's apartment?

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