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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. Which of the following does Ecko deliver to Sooley’s family in Rhino Camp?
(a) Birthday cards.
(b) New Year’s cards.
(c) Christmas cards.
(d) Thanksgiving cards.

2. Whom of the following takes a large television to Rhino Camp?
(a) Niollo.
(b) Kymm.
(c) Sooley.
(d) Ecko.

3. Which of the following is Central’s margin of victory over Coppin State?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

4. In which of the following years did the NCAA postseason playoff begin?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1978.
(d) 2000.

5. The comment that “He finished with a jarring, rim-rattling, windmill dunk that sent quakes all the way to South Sudan” (238) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Litotes.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following does Christine note having worked?

2. Which of the following is Sooley’s height at the Christmas break?

3. Whom of the following players accompanies Britt to the press conference after the game against Duke in the NCAA playoffs?

4. Which of the following is the regular capacity of Central’s basketball gym?

5. Which of the following does Ecko deliver to Sooley’s family in Rhino Camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sooley respond when Murray asks him to vacate his dorm room for the night?

2. How does Beatrice attempt to address her failing tent in Rhino Camp?

3. What premonition do the Central coaches discuss Sooley having had?

4. How does Sooley assess the Central basketball team just before Thanksgiving (156)?

5. What is meant by the term “guarantee game” in the novel?

6. What is noted as strange in Central’s conference’s tournament?

7. What is noted as present in the Duke Basketball Museum and Athletics Hall of Fame?

8. How is the “legend of Sooley” described to begin?

9. What is meant by the term “one-and-done” in the novel?

10. To what is Sooley’s weight gain between August and December attributed, and what form does it take?

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