The Watermelon Feed
BOOBIE
DREAMING OF HEROES
BLACK AND WHITE
THE AMBIVALENCE OF IVORY
100
The football players would go before the crowd, one by one, to be checked out as if they were involved in what other type of contest?
WHAT IS A BEAUTY CONTEST?
100
"AN OMEN THAT THE SEASON WAS TAILSPINNING OUT OF CONTROL, SOMEHOW JINXED" WAS THE THOUGHT OF THIS MAN.
WHO IS COACH GAINES?
100
AT THIS AGE MIKE WINCHELL WATCHED HIS FATHER PASS AWAY.
WHAT IS THIRTEEN YEARS OLD?
100
THIS MAN LED THE MOVEMENT TO DESEGREGATE THE SCHOOLS IN THE THE EARLY 1980S.
WHO IS LAURENCE HURD?
100
When does Ivory enjoy football?
WHAT IS "Game time and early morning workouts".
200
THIS GENTLEMAN RECEIVED A STANDING OVATION FOR HIS FORMER GLORY AS A PERMIAN FOOTBALL PLAYER.
WHO IS SHAWN CROW?
200
BOOBIE WAS PLACED IN L.V.'S CARE IN THIS YEAR.
WHEN IS 1978?
200
THIS PLAYER WAS COMPARED TO HIS FATHER DON AND HIS HABIT FOR FIGHTING WITH HIS FISTS.
WHO IS DON BILLINGSLEY?
200
THESE WERE THE THREE HIGH SCHOOLS IN ODESSA BEFORE 1982...
WHAT IS ECTOR, ODESSA HIGH, AND PERMIAN?
200
"They went skittering like billiard balls" is an example of this literary device.
WHAT IS "a simile"?
300
IN 1988 THIS MAN WAS THE HEAD COACH OF THE PERMIAN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM.
WHO IS COACH GAINES?
300
IN SCHOOL BOOBIE WAS GIVEN THIS TYPE OF TREATMENT FROM HIS TEACHERS.
WHAT IS PREFERENTIAL?
300
THIS PLAYER'S SUCCESS ON THE FIELD THREATENED THE POSITION OF DON BILLINGSLEY.
WHO IS CHRIS COMER?
300
"WE FIT AS ATHLETES, BUT WE REALLY DON'T FIT AS PART OF SOCIETY" WAS SAID BY THIS MAN.
WHO IS NATE HEARNE?
300
The Permian players were transported to the Marshall game in a...
WHAT IS a 737 jet?
400
THIS GROUP WAS IN CHARGE OF MAKING TREATS AND SIGNS FOR THE PERMIAN FOOTBALL TEAM.
WHO ARE THE PEPPETES?
400
THIS PLAYER HELPED BOOBIE OFF THE FIELD AT THE END OF THE PRE-SEASON SCRIMMAGE.
WHO IS IVORY CHRISTIAN?
400
"I GOT HIM TO LIVE THROUGH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING PRETTY SPECIAL" WAS SAID BY THIS CHARACTER.
WHO IS CHARLIE BILLINGSLEY?
400
THE RAILROAD TRACKS IN ODESSA THAT SEPARATED THE NORTHSIDE FROM THE SOUTSIDE WERE COMPARED TO THIS HISTORICALLY RENOWNED BOUNDARY
WHAT IS THE BERLIN WALL?
400
In this chapter Ivory gets a calling for...
WHAT IS "becoming a preacher"?
500
WHEN INTRODUCING THE PLAYERS COACH GAINES NAMED THIS PLAYER AS THE ONE TO FILL THE SHOES OF SHAWN CROW.
WHO IS BOOBIE?
500
THIS IS THE SURGERY BOOBIE NEEDED AFTER BEING INJURED IN THE SCRIMMAGE.
WHO IS IVORY CHRISTIAN?
500
THIS CHARACTER IS THE QUARTERBACK FOR THE PERMIAN REBELS.
WHO IS MIKE WINCHELL?
500
THIS WOMAN WAS THE FIRST MINORITY CANDIDATE TO BE ELECTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD.
WHO IS VICKIE GOMEZ?
500
The fans were upset with outcome of the game, they blamed this person for the Permian's loss.
WHO IS "Coach Gaines"?
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