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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. What does Ray's father convince him to do while they are playing a match?
(a) Lend his special club to his father.
(b) Play his best.
(c) Quit the match.
(d) Intentionally not win the match.

2. What effect does Crowbar's action have on Two Down?
(a) He loses his focus and plays poorly.
(b) His play improves.
(c) He wants to quit.
(d) He is unaffected.

3. Where will the golf match planned in Chapter 19 take place?
(a) Boston Municipal Golf Course.
(b) Ponky.
(c) The Mayflower Club.
(d) Ponky and The Mayflower Club.

4. How does Ray respond to Madeline's reaction to his plan?
(a) He leaves her.
(b) He also falls more in love with her.
(c) He gets drunk and tries to make up with her.
(d) He ransacks her apartment.

5. What does Ray jokingly suggest as a solution for Two Down's trouble?
(a) Killing Concorde.
(b) Putting a horse's head in Concorde's bed.
(c) Catching Concorde at cheaing.
(d) Kidnapping Concorde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ray's father want to buy from Ray that motivates him to invite Ray for drinks?

2. How does Dannie respond when Ray confronts her about her relationship with Browning?

3. What does Two Down have to do to absolve his debt to Concorde?

4. What is noticeable about Concorde and Ray's father when they arrive to play?

5. Two Down was threatened with getting fired, a recall on his home loan, and ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, after The Bet is over, how have the dynamics at Ponky changed?

2. After doing research at the library on his special club, the MacGregor 693, what does Ray find out?

3. What does Ray learn about Madeline from her letter.

4. What might be Ray's motivation for intentionally committing a violation in the last round, forcing the match to end in a tie?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 24, what does Ray's father offer him? What does Ray do?

6. Why does Ray's father tell him not to score too high, and what does Ray realize about his father's motives?

7. What change does the reader see in Hoover when he distracts Ray's father with talk about seeing his own shadow?

8. What threat do Concorde and the Slavic man make against Two Down?

9. When Thud comes back with photos of Concorde's affair, what do the Chops realize about the "mistress," and what do they decide to do about the information?

10. What does Ray do that he hopes will convince Two Down to drop the kidnapping plan?

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