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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 are Bump Bailey's two main vices?
(a) Gambling and drinking.
(b) Trying to take credit for any wins and badmouthing his coach.
(c) Bad locker room jokes and his attraction to Memo Paris.
(d) Overeating and cursing.

2. What does Roy think of Doc Knobb's help?
(a) He believes it helps the team.
(b) He refuses it and leaves the group.
(c) He asks for an extra practice session to improve his batting.
(d) He goes along with it, but doesn't believe it helps.

3. What happens when Roy meets Gus?
(a) Gus talks him into selling his story to Max Mercy.
(b) Gus offers him higher pay to work for him.
(c) He gambles and looses each time.
(d) Gus tells him the fans are disgruntled with him.

4. What warning does Red give Roy that he ignores?
(a) To beware of Memo, who is a bad influence.
(b) To watch out about Fowler, who is jealous of him.
(c) To watch his money and protect his old age.
(d) To not play too hard because he was really too old to play baseball and might get injured.

5. By what name does Roy call his personal bat?
(a) Wonderboy.
(b) He did give it a name.
(c) Sam.
(d) Slam Hitter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two places does Roy tell the train porter he has visited?

2. What headlines in the newspaper catches Sam's attention?

3. How does Harriet respond when Roy says he wants to be the best baseball player ever?

4. What does Roy promise his fans?

5. What happens to Roy because of Doc Knobb's help?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Roy reveal to Iris about his life when they went driving after she cheered him on?

2. How does Iris feel about Roy when she meets him in person, and why?

3. Harriet is more of a philosophical thinker than Roy. How did her views of baseball differ from Roy's view?

4. When Roy is teased about his bat being white, he makes the comment that it is the bat's true color. What does the color white indicate, and how does this apply to Roy's bat?

5. Discuss Memo's reaction to Roy and how is changed over the course of this chapter (Chapter 4).

6. What advice does Red Blow give Roy that is supposed to help him get out of his slump?

7. Explain how Roy feels about Memo, Bump's girlfriend.

8. What event happens to cause Roy to get out of his slump (more than hitting a home run).

9. Malamud makes a point of mentioning that the Judge has a stuffed shark in his office. Explain the significance of the shark as related to the Judge's personality and how well it fits.

10. Discuss the dreams of Roy and the failures he has experienced up to this point.

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