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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. By what margin does the Central basketball team lose its third game?

2. By what margin does the Central basketball team lose its game against Furman?

3. From which of the following conferences does Central’s first opponent in the NCAA playoffs come?

4. Which of the following is the number of points Sooley scores in his first game playing for Central?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What significance accrues to the establishment of a UN school in Rhino Camp?

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

4. What problems are noted with Sooley’s Christmas call to Rhino Camp (176)?

5. What score, and what statistics, does Sooley end with against Duke in the NCAA playoffs?

6. Of what does Murray assure Sooley in the lead-up to the final regular-season game?

7. What menu is on offer at the Walker Thanksgiving?

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

9. What happens in the wake of Central’s victory over Howard?

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

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

Explicate the significance of Howard University’s mascots, the Bison.

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the nickname of the McDougald-McLendon Arena, “The Nest.”

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