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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. Which of the following is served in celebration of Sooley’s placement on the South Sudanese national youth team?

2. Which of the following is noted as Ecko’s favorite restaurant in Juba?

3. Which of the following is Chol’s age when Sooley is placed on the South Sudanese national youth team?

4. Which of the following is brought to the celebration of Sooley’s invitation to try out for the South Sudanese national youth team?

5. Which of the following is noted as among Sooley’s course-load?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ecko note to Sooley as “the same basic parts” of a good jump shot (13)?

2. What does Ecko note as what scouts and media agencies like about South Sudanese players?

3. In his welcome speech to Central’s basketball team, what does the school’s athletic director say?

4. What reasons does Murray give for attending Central?

5. What is Ecko’s initial assessment of Sooley’s shooting (9)?

6. Describe the first organized event of the South Sudanese national youth team tryout (12).

7. When the South Sudanese national youth team assembles, what overall idea does Ecko impart to the players?

8. How is Ecko Lam introduced in the text (8)?

9. What is noted as present in the Magic locker room (55)?

10. For what reasons does Ecko note that cutting players is “by far the worst part of coaching” (19)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ecko repeatedly notes and asserts Sooley’s specialness, and the novel bears it out. Has experience shown you something similar, either in yourself or in someone you know? How so? What effect has it had on you? How so?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, Murray’s mother is referred to and addressed as Miss Ida. What significance does the persistence of the title have? How does that significance manifest in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Sooley muses that “Football was a strange game” (105). What function does the observation serve in the novel, and how is that function achieved?

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