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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what do Ben and Cody spend time before the Horseshoe Bend game?
(a) Throwing the football.
(b) Watching videos of their games.
(c) Lifting weights.
(d) Planning strategies.

2. What talk does Ben's father mention to Ben?
(a) The sex talk.
(b) The college talk.
(c) The mother is ill talk.
(d) The football talk.

3. What is the worse part to Ben about dying?
(a) Possibly being in a lot of pain.
(b) Not having any children.
(c) Missing out on college.
(d) How it affects the ones he loves.

4. What does Lambeer say to Ben about Malcolm X's book?
(a) That is was a great book.
(b) That Malcolm was a liar.
(c) That Malcolm did not write the book.
(d) That Malcolm had very radical ideas.

5. What project does Ben chose in Lambeer's class?
(a) To change the laws about gay marriage.
(b) To write a memoir.
(c) To have a street named for Malcom X.
(d) To change the curriculum for some classes at the high school.

6. Why do Cody and Ben come out of the Horseshoe Bend game heroes?
(a) They keep the team together with the coach gone.
(b) They run a play that seems impossible.
(c) They make the winning touchdown.
(d) They win an important argument with the referee.

7. Who is invited to the homecoming dance?
(a) The high school students and their families.
(b) The high school and middle school students.
(c) Only the high school students.
(d) The entire town.

8. What does Ben's father say about his wife's illness?
(a) He will stick by her to the end.
(b) He may have to have her committed.
(c) He is thinking about divorce.
(d) He will leave after the boys leave.

9. Why does Ben think his relationship with Dallas is getting complicated?
(a) Cody likes her.
(b) He thinks he loves her.
(c) Sooner used to date her.
(d) She might be pregnant.

10. What does Ben want to do with his teachers in his senior year?
(a) Get to know them as friends.
(b) Try to make them quit teaching.
(c) Get them to be a little easier on the students.
(d) Hold them accountable for the education he receives.

11. What does Sooner do in the locker room?
(a) Breaks a bench when he jumps on it.
(b) Hits a locker with his fist.
(c) Picks a fight with other players.
(d) Slips and falls on the wet floor.

12. What does Ben tell his therapist he is starting to feel?
(a) A lot of fear.
(b) Deliriously happy.
(c) Some grief.
(d) Some pain.

13. What does Ben decide to do about his illness?
(a) Start the treatments immediately.
(b) Start the treatments after Christmas.
(c) Go to a faith healer.
(d) Take supplements, eat healthy and sleep well.

14. What does Rudy show Ben when he stops by his room?
(a) His journal that he writes in daily.
(b) Rudy's football trophy from high school.
(c) That he has a copy of Malcolm X's book, too.
(d) His crucifix from being a priest.

15. What does the coach remind the players of in his first talk to them?
(a) That winning is everything.
(b) The rules on and off the field.
(c) That football is more important than academics.
(d) That losing is not all bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rudy say when Ben asks him about having been a Catholic priest?

2. What bothers Ben about his relationship with Dallas?

3. Where do the players go after the coach talks to them?

4. What is the reason Dallas gives Ben for her having had sex with him?

5. How does Ben view dating Dallas Suzuki?

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