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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 does the Central basketball team return from Madison Square Garden?
2. Whom of the following players accompanies Britt to the press conference after the game against Duke in the NCAA playoffs?
3. Which of the following is noted as Central’s biggest rival?
4. Which of the following is the number of minutes Sooley plays in his first game for Central?
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. What score, and what statistics, does Sooley end with against Duke in the NCAA playoffs?
2. Why does Britt seek to avoid playing in the so-called First Four?
3. What is meant by the term “one-and-done” in the novel?
4. How does Beatrice attempt to address her failing tent in Rhino Camp?
5. What significance accrues to the establishment of a UN school in Rhino Camp?
6. How is the “legend of Sooley” described to begin?
7. How does Sooley assess the Central basketball team just before Thanksgiving (156)?
8. Of what does Murray assure Sooley in the lead-up to the final regular-season game?
9. How does Sooley respond when Murray asks him to vacate his dorm room for the night?
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
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?
Essay Topic 2
What is the overall moral of the novel, if there is one? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the significance of Howard University’s mascots, the Bison.
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