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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 does Ecko deliver to Sooley’s family in Rhino Camp?

2. Which of the following teams does Central play in the final game of its conference’s tournament?

3. In which of the following locations does Central play in its conference’s tournament?

4. Which of the following is the Providence mascot?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Britt get his players’ attention on the road to play Providence?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Beatrice compare and contrast her situation with her parents’?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the South Sudanese national youth team coalesces, much attention is paid to the experiences of violence and tragedy among its members. What narrative function does the emphasis on such things serve, and how is that function achieved?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Early on, Ecko muses that “yet another seventeen-year-old was bored with the notion of stretching” (9), and throughout the novel, much is made of the fact that the young players do not spend much time stretching. Explicate the significance of the avoidance of stretching, supporting your ideas from the text.

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