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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Overtime".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final line of "Where Do We Go from Here?"
(a) "Back."
(b) "Like a river."
(c) "If only."
(d) "Toward the dawn."

2. What is JB doing while Josh tries to talk to him in "Conversation"?
(a) Writing on the computer.
(b) Making dinner.
(c) Talking on the phone.
(d) Homework.

3. What does Josh describe his mother repeatedly singing in "The Doctor Pats Jordan and Me on the Back and Says"?
(a) "On the Mountaintop."
(b) "Stand by Me."
(c) "Kumbaya."
(d) "Halelujah."

4. What stylistic literary device is evident in the following phrase from "Showoff"? "... a sick slick sliding sweet seven-foot shot."
(a) Sonorance.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Alliteration.

5. Where does Vondie's mother work, according to the narrator in "Ironic"?
(a) At NASA.
(b) At a bookstore.
(c) In the school cafeteria.
(d) At a bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what nickname does JB call Josh in "Free Throws"?

2. Who was not at the game tonight, according to the narrator in "Out of Control"?

3. Who is compared to a strong wind in the opening of the poem "Storm"?

4. What is the single sentence that comprises the poem "Basketball Rule #5"?

5. The narrator of "Josh Bell" says that he is the next "Kevin Durant, LeBron" and who?

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