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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dick Weiss tells Stevie and Susan Carol that it's in the moderator handbook to refer to the basketball players as what in Chapter 4?
(a) Aspiring basketball players.
(b) Student athletes.
(c) Athletes in training.
(d) Amateur basketball players.

2. What news station is covering the sports event in the novel?
(a) ABC.
(b) NBC.
(c) FOX.
(d) CBS.

3. With whom do Stevie and Susan Carol eat breakfast in Chapter 8?
(a) Coach K.
(b) Dick Weiss.
(c) Thomas Whiting.
(d) Their fathers.

4. Stevie and Susan Carol overhear the guy in the gray suit and someone else talking about throwing a game so that who wins in Chapter 5?
(a) USC.
(b) MSU.
(c) Duke.
(d) Harvard.

5. What word refers to the act of extortion by intimidation?
(a) Murder.
(b) Homeopathy.
(c) Manslaughter.
(d) Blackmail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Susan Carol's father is responsible for founding a religious group for what?

2. Susan Carol believes that the MSU staff member they encounter and obtain a keycard from has a list of what in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 10, Chip treats Stevie and Susan Carol as though they are what?

4. Susan Carol tells Stevie that she already did what for the day in Chapter 3?

5. When they try to pick up their media credentials, Stevie is given a hard time because he does not have what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Stevie and Susan Carol gain access to Chip Graber's room in Chapter 9?

2. What do Stevie and Susan Carol do in order to get in touch with Chip in Chapter 8?

3. What plan do Stevie and Susan Carol develop to identify the blackmailer in Chapter 6?

4. Who is Dick Weiss? How is he described in Chapter 3?

5. Where do Stevie and Susan Carol find the players' room numbers in Chapter 9? What do they do next?

6. What is ironic about the person Stevie and Susan Carol discover to be the blackmailer in Chapter 6?

7. Why is Stevie jealous of Susan Carol in Chapter 4? Who dissuades him from writing his article about MSU's player?

8. Where does Stevie go for a walk in Chapter 5? Who accompanies him?

9. What is foreshadowed upon Stevie's meeting Susan Carol in Chapter 2? What does Dick Weiss suggest Stevie read?

10. What do Susan Carol and Stevie overhear in Chapter 5? What conflict do they face?

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