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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. On which of the following dates is the Central basketball team’s first game?

2. On which of the following dates does the Central basketball team return from Madison Square Garden?

3. Which of the following is the name of Murray’s girlfriend?

4. Which of the following is the captain of the Central basketball team?

5. Which of the following is the number of points Sooley scores in Central’s final regular-season game?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Sooley muse is at the root of Murray’s problems on the court when Britt asks him about them (156)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explicate the significance of Angelina’s name.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the ethics of the guarantee game. Is it more good than bad? Is it more bad than good? By what measure? How so?

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