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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became an obsession for the Chops after Hoover's tirade?
(a) Looking at The Mayflower Club.
(b) Fixing the damage cause by Hoover.
(c) Getting Hoover to agree to more bets.
(d) Getting Hoover into anger management therapy.

2. What secret does Ray keep from Madeline?
(a) Why he is working at The Mayflower Club.
(b) He wants to be rich.
(c) He loves Dannie.
(d) He is divorced.

3. How did Travis die?
(a) Jumping off a bridge.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Jumping from the car.
(d) He drowned.

4. What is Ray's third attempt to win The Bet?
(a) Ray uses Madeline to get a match time.
(b) Ray poses as a journalist writing about The Mayflower Club.
(c) Ray asks his father for an invitation to play.
(d) Ray bribes an employee at The Mayflower Club.

5. Whom does Ray enlist to help him with his plan to win The Bet?
(a) Froghair and Ray's father.
(b) Hoover and Crowbar.
(c) Dannie and Thud.
(d) Captain Roberts and Hoover.

6. Why do the other Chops not involved in The Bet become resentful toward The Bet?
(a) They don't like all the attention paid to scheming and winning.
(b) They feel bad that relationships are being threatened.
(c) They are bitter that they didn't decide to join in also.
(d) They are against gambling.

7. When Ray reveals that he hasn't been completely honest with Madeline, this is an example of _________.
(a) Irony.
(b) Character Foil.
(c) Flashback.
(d) Foreshadowing.

8. What was Ray's father's solution for Travis' illness?
(a) Psychiatric hospital.
(b) Quit his job to care for Travis.
(c) Ignore it.
(d) Experimental new therapies.

9. What did Ray and Two Down steal in high school?
(a) The principal's car.
(b) Baby Jesus figures.
(c) Their high school's mascot.
(d) A dozen donuts from a bakery.

10. How are Two Down's leadership skills evident in this suggestion to the other Chops?
(a) He gets mad and storms off.
(b) He talks them out of going on with The Bet.
(c) He takes charge and convinces them to go along.
(d) He forces them to drop out.

11. What were the terms of The Bet established in Chapter 2?
(a) The first Chop to play a full game of golf at The Mayflower Club wins.
(b) The first Chop to win a game at Ponky wins.
(c) The first Chop to date someone from The Mayflower Club wins.
(d) The first Chop to be admitted to The Mayflower Club wins.

12. Who is the narrator of the story?
(a) Ray's father.
(b) Chunkin' Charlie.
(c) Two Down.
(d) Ray.

13. What does Hoover do for a living?
(a) Journalist.
(b) College Student.
(c) Plumber.
(d) Scientist at MIT.

14. How did Uncle Joe die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Murder.

15. How does Ray's father act when Ray visits his office?
(a) Sympathetic.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) As if nothing has changed.
(d) Relieved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ray also remembers his Uncle Joe, who had been Ray's most ardent supporter, and a special golf club that Uncle Joe had given him. The club had once been used by ____________.

2. What was Ray's relationship with Deisha Lake?

3. What is the name of the caddy Ray especially likes?

4. What is ironic about the way the Chops scheduled their matches at The Mayflower Club?

5. Which person is integral to Dannie's first plan to win The Bet?

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