LITERARY TERMS
1. The description below is an
example of which literary element?
A silver 707 lands and pulls up toward the
control tower where 30,000 fans stand
waiting. The hatch of the plane opens.
When Cager and the other Miners appear
the crowd goes crazy. The cheers rise to
deafening levels as Willie Cager raises the
1966 NCAA Championship trophy up over
his head.
a. Imagery
b. Onomatopoeia
c. Personification
d. conflict
a. Imagery
2. What aspect do Glory Road
and Bad Boy share in common?
A. They are both written in first person.
B. Both Walter and the Texas Western
black players triumphed against great
odds.
C. Both took place in Texas.
D. Characters in both stories were made
fun of because of the way they talked.
B. Both Walter and the
Texas Western black
players triumphed against
great odds.
3. Visual representations are
A. Maps
B. Charts
C. photographs
D. all of the above
D. all of the above
4. INT. TUNNEL-TULSA’S ARENA—MOMENTS
LATER
The players run into the arena. Fans cup their hands and
shout, their faces twisted.
FIRST TULSA FAN
Oreo, you belong on the plantation!
THIRD TULSA FAN
Hey, you better watch your backs after the game. We knows
how to take care of runaway blacks.
Identify the tone.
A. exciting
B. violent and angry
C. Tense
D. Confusion
B. Violent and Angry
5. When Haskins has a
difficult time balancing
his home life with
basketball, what type of
conflict does the author
employ?
Internal Conflict
6. What literary device does
the author employ?
4You can give up. (he looks
each in the eye)It’s your choice.
You can walk away, or walk
through the fire and grab it all.
But if you walk away, you’ll
never know if you could’ve
stood on that center line.
Metaphor
7. When the Texas
Western Miners Team
returns to El Paso and
celebrate their 1966 NCAA
Championship, what plot
element does the author
employ?
a. Resolution
b. Rising action
c. Climax
d. exposition
a. Resolution
8. From the text of Glory
Road, we can infer that
Don Haskins is
determined. What literary
term does this exemplify?
A. metaphor
B. character trait
C. personification
D. simile
B. Character Trait
9. The following is an example
of what drama element?
INT. HARRY FLOURNOY’S HOUSEKITCHEN-LATER
Mrs. Flournoy enters the living room with
Flournoy following. He stops shocked,
when he sees Haskins sitting at a table,
next to Flournoy’s father, eating his
piece of blueberry pie.
Stage Directions
10. The Texas Western team
was looked down at during
the beginning of the
screenplay, but in the end
they win the highest
championship in college
basketball. What literary
element does the author
employ?
Irony
11. Haskins and Moe head to
the interview and under a
banner that reads “NCAA
National Championship.”
a. Personification
b. Imagery
c. Alliteration
d. onomatopoeia
a. Personification
12. Glory Road is an
example of what genre?
Drama
13. What figurative
language device does the
author employ?
“I'm on you like ugly on a
baboon's butt.”
Simile
14. Direct or Indirect Characterization?
“Bobby Joe, once awake, has
intelligent, playful eyes and an
(overconfident) demeanor.…
Lightening quick, he finds openings
where there aren’t any, dribbles past
players with dazzling speed.”
Direct Characterization
15. Direct or Indirect Characterization?
INT. MINERS DORM HALLWAY – MOMENTS
LATER ROWDY STUDENTS run past. Don walks with
MOE ―SQUEAKY‖ IBA, 25, a very short, earnest
ASSISTANT COACH with horn-rimmed glasses. His
voice is high, hence the unfortunate nickname
Direct Characterization
16.Direct or Indirect Characterization?
MARY
Always restless. Always gotta have
better. You got a family now. You’re
a winning coach. Is that so bad?
Indirect Characterization
17. Mary gets upset with
Don for not telling her
about the racial threats.
This is an example of
internal or external
conflict?
External Conflict
18. How is the screenplay of
Glory Road organized?
a. cause-effect
b. chronological Order
c. problem-solution
b. Chronological
RESEARCH
TERMS
19. Located at the beginning
of a book and lists the title
and page number of all the
chapters in the book.
A. Index
B. Almanac
C. Table of Contents
D. encyclopedia
C. Table of Contents
20. This should always be typed
in alphabetical order according
to the author’s last name.
A. Index
B. bibliography
C. newspaper
D. encyclopedia
B. Bibliography
21. If we wanted to find out what
the weather was like in El Paso
during basketball season, I would
look in which resource?
A. Atlas
B. Almanac
C. newspaper
D. encyclopedia
B. Almanac
22. If I have a book of
basketball rules, and I want to
find information about fouls,
where would I look?
A. Index
B. Almanac
C. Table of Contents
D. atlas
A. Index
23. If I wanted to find
general information about
the 1960’s, where would I
look?
A. newspaper
B. Almanac
C. Table of Contents
D. encyclopedia
D. Encyclopedia
24. What source would give the most
reliable information about the real-life
Texas Western players?
A. article “The movie: Glory Road”
B. article “Stars of Basketball”
C. article “1960 Texas Western Miners
Team: Where are They Now?”
D. article “Dealing with Sports
Injuries”
C.
article “1960 Texas
Western Miners Team:
Where are They Now?”
GRAMMAR TERMS
25. adds additional thoughts,
more information; used as a
pause for effect
Dash
26. used to emphasize
emotion such as excitement
Exclamation Point
Context Clues
27. The stands are jammed and
the crowd is raucous.
The best meaning for the word
raucous is
A. rowdy
B. friendly
C. angry
A. rowdy
28. The Miners struggle,
spooked by the hostile crowd.
The best meaning for the
word hostile is
A. friendly
B. unfriendly, dangerous
C. disorderly
B. unfriendly, dangerous
29. The Official calls a foul on
Bobby Joe. Haskins rants.
The best meaning for the word
rants is
A. experiencing emotional conflict
B. unfriendly, dangerous
C. to speak in an angry or violent
manner
C. to speak in an angry
or violent manner
30. In the sentence, “When we feel
equal, everyone benefits.” The root
word bene- is most likely to mean
A. good/well
B. empty
C. feeling
D. against
A. good/well