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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the coach do to prove a point about democracy?
(a) Makes the class read The Gulag Archipelago.
(b) Have an election.
(c) Burns a flag.
(d) Burn a book.

2. Why does Ben say he will continue to visit Rudy?
(a) Ben knows he is safe since Rudy was honest with Ben.
(b) He likes talking to Rudy.
(c) He hopes Rudy will change.
(d) He thinks Rudy is a good person.

3. What is Dallas doing when Ben goes to her house?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Making spaghetti for Joe Henry.
(c) Mowing the lawn.
(d) Practicing her cello.

4. About what does Ben ask Coach?
(a) About the Coach's dead son.
(b) His girlfriend who had died.
(c) About playing in an impromtu game of hoops.
(d) About why the Coach allowed Ben on the team.

5. What does Ben regret on Christmas Eve?
(a) He did not buy his mother a present.
(b) He did not tell anyone about his illness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His mother is in bed out of it for Ben's last Christmas Eve.

6. What does Lambeer tell Ben could happen if he fails Lambeer's class?
(a) He will be kicked off the football team.
(b) He will not get into the best college.
(c) He will have to go to summer school.
(d) He might not graduate.

7. Who are two people Ben decides to definitely tell?
(a) Cody and Dallas.
(b) Dallas and Rudy.
(c) No one besides Coach.
(d) Cody and his dad.

8. How does the coach feel about school work?
(a) He thinks football is more important.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) He pushes his players to do well.
(d) He thinks it is more important than football.

9. What does Rudy say is the reason Malcolm X was hated by many?
(a) He threatened the existing power structure.
(b) He made people look at some hard truths.
(c) He hated white people.
(d) He was too good of a writer.

10. What does Rudy confess to Ben?
(a) He was kicked out of the priesthood for being gay.
(b) He is a child molester.
(c) He was never a priest.
(d) He was raped by his uncle.

11. Of what does Hey-Soos remind Ben?
(a) It is not too late to seek treatment.
(b) Hey-Soos is not human.
(c) Ben made his own choices.
(d) Ben is an adult.

12. Why does Dallas back up Ben in Lambeer's class?
(a) Her brother was not accepted to college because of prejudice.
(b) Her grandparents were in a relocation camp in World War II.
(c) Her father was beaten in the navy because of prejudice.
(d) She has suffered prejudice herself.

13. What does Lambeer not realize about Ben?
(a) Ben is not doing this for attention.
(b) Ben does not care about a diploma.
(c) Ben knows more history than Lambeer.
(d) Ben is a very stubborn person.

14. What does Sylvia say about "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?
(a) She has never heard of the book.
(b) She doesn't think anyone should be allowed to read it.
(c) She loves the book and has her own copy.
(d) She thinks the whole class should study it.

15. What did Rudy think Ben was going to do earlier?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Beat up Rudy.
(c) Call the cops.
(d) Try to make Rudy change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dallas ask Ben about him and her?

2. What happens when Ben goes out to run?

3. What does Coach say about the Malcolm X project?

4. What does Ben say he is going to do anyway?

5. What does coach tell Ben about Lambeer's class?

(see the answer keys)

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