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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Roy feel about The Judge wanting to push Pop out of his job?
(a) He wants to have a better team manager, so is glad The Judge is pushing Pop out.
(b) He wants to help the team win and save Pop's job.
(c) He really doesn't mind because he doesn't know Pop well.
(d) He wants to get Pop's job when he is pushed out.

2. How does Roy feel when he becomes the team hero, making news stories and filling sports columns with his achievements?
(a) He is proud to be able to help his team out of their slump.
(b) He is unhappy, feeling like he has a lot more to live for, and wants to conquer the world.
(c) He is happy, but misses Bump, who should have been the hitter.
(d) He is ecstatic that he is a hero.

3. How does Pop react to the almost magical quality of Roy's Wonderboy during the first game in which Roy gets to hit?
(a) He forbids Roy to use it and demands he use the bat chosen by Pop.
(b) He becomes optimistic about the team's chances of a win.
(c) He is afraid the fact that it is homemade might cause it to not be accurate.
(d) He tells Roy is it not legal size and weight, but use it if he can get away with it.

4. How does Harriet respond when Roy says he wants to be the best baseball player ever?
(a) She ridicules him for his frivilous ambitions.
(b) She reassures him that she knows he will be.
(c) She shoots him.
(d) She cheers him on.

5. Roy consistently reaches out for love. Who does he reach out to in the slump before the game in which he pitches?
(a) Iris Lemon.
(b) Harriet Bird.
(c) His teammates.
(d) Memo Paris.

6. Why is Pop Fisher "heart heavy?"
(a) He really doesn't like baseball.
(b) He doesn't want Roy on his team.
(c) He has never had a winning season.
(d) He mourns Sam's death.

7. By what name does Roy call his personal bat?
(a) Slam Hitter.
(b) He did give it a name.
(c) Wonderboy.
(d) Sam.

8. Why is Roy so good at baseball?
(a) He had practiced with his father when he was young.
(b) He has trained with "The Whammer."
(c) Sam drills him daily in how to play well.
(d) He has natural talent in the sport.

9. Why does Memo ride in the night with Roy without using headlights?
(a) She didn't know he had the lights off.
(b) They are trying to escape without being noticed.
(c) She hates the light and loves darkness.
(d) They need to conserve the car battery.

10. What warning does Red give Roy that he ignores?
(a) To watch his money and protect his old age.
(b) To beware of Memo, who is a bad influence.
(c) To not play too hard because he was really too old to play baseball and might get injured.
(d) To watch out about Fowler, who is jealous of him.

11. What does the author tell us about Roy's declaration to become the best ball player ever?
(a) It can't come true because Roy is benched.
(b) It probably will come true.
(c) It will make Memo love him.
(d) It might bring misfortune.

12. What happens to Roy because of Doc Knobb's help?
(a) He leaves the team because Doc's help didn't work for him.
(b) He gets into an argument because one of the players doesn't believe it helps.
(c) He is benched for refusing to accept it.
(d) He becomes the best batter in history.

13. What does Sam dream that foretells what will happen to him?
(a) He dreams he wins the Most Valuable Player Award.
(b) He dreams Roy was shot.
(c) He dreams he was stabbed.
(d) He dreams he is a famous sportswriter.

14. How does Roy relate to Pop?
(a) Both played baseball, both loved a woman, and both had no friends.
(b) Bad luck, media harrassment, and the team's poor standing.
(c) Both feared The Judge, both were injured in baseball, and both were about to retire.
(d) Both depended on Red, both were poor, and both played outfield.

15. What does Pop do when he sees Roy and Memo returning to the motel in the morning?
(a) He benches Roy for being out all night.
(b) He asks Roy if he and Memo are planning on getting married.
(c) He tells Roy to leave Memo alone and not to go out with her any more.
(d) He fines Roy $100 for not being in his room the night before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the bassoon case that Roy carries on the train?

2. What happens to Roy after Bump gets injured and dies?

3. What happens to Sam Simpson?

4. What does Roy say is the only thing he owes the public?

5. What does Gus brag to Roy about when they are talking in Memo's motel room?

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