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

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

3. Which of the following is the number of points Sooley scores in the final game of Central’s conference’s tournament?

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

5. Which of the following is noted as Central’s biggest rival?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Sooley respond when Murray asks him to vacate his dorm room for the night?

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

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

7. How does Sooley regard Robin when she visits after his meeting with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration?

8. What is Ecko’s travel schedule leading up to his visit to Rhino Camp?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Consider the notion that Beatrice, although a homemaker with limited formal education, speaks more languages than her college-educated son, Sooley. What is implied about Beatrice by the juxtaposition of her languages and education? How does the implication come across? What significance does it have outside the novel?

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