Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
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 squads from the South Sudanese national youth team plays the first period against Croatia?
2. Which of the following brands sponsors the South Sudanese national youth team?
3. Which of the following is noted as the number of camps hosting South Sudanese refugees?
4. Which of the following is placed on the South Sudanese national youth team alongside Sooley?
5. Which of the following squads from the South Sudanese national youth team plays the third period against Croatia?
Short Essay Questions
1. By what path does the South Sudanese national youth team travel to the United States?
2. How is Ecko Lam introduced in the text (8)?
3. What is Ecko’s initial assessment of Sooley’s shooting (9)?
4. How do Ecko and Britt know one another?
5. Describe the first organized event of the South Sudanese national youth team tryout (12).
6. For what reasons does Ecko note that cutting players is “by far the worst part of coaching” (19)?
7. In his welcome speech to Central’s basketball team, what does the school’s athletic director say?
8. What prompts Sooley to leave the reading area at the University of Juba amid his tryouts for the South Sudanese national youth team?
9. How does Sooley describe the football team’s morning practices?
10. How does Sooley gloss the situation of South Sudanese refugees (101)?
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
The comment is made that “massacres were so common that another one was not newsworthy” in South Sudan (79). What significance does the comment have, and how is that significance manifested in the novel and in experience?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 5, Sooley is witness to an incident of sectarian violence. What narrative function does the incident serve, and how is that function achieved?
|
This section contains 688 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
