Open-Book Test on Brian S Song

Open-book Test on Brian’s Song

Directions: Write the correct answer to each question on your own paper.

1. What position did Brian play when he started with the Chicago Bears?

2. What skill was Gale always better at than Brian during practices?

3. How did Gale know that Brian must have made the team?

4. Why was Gale fined $25.00 by one of the assistant coaches?

5. Describe Brian’s personality.

6. Describe Gale’s personality.

7. What award did Gale receive at the end of the first season?

8. What was Brian’s goal for the second season?

9. What kind of surgery did Gale have to have?

10. List two ways Brian helped Gale recover after surgery.

11. What position did the coach move him to during his last season?

12. What was the first sign that Brian was sick?

13. List two other signs (examples of foreshadowing) that Brian was sick.

14. What was Brian’s first surgery?

15. What did Brian ask Gale to do for Patti?

16. Why wasn’t Gale able to fulfill that request about Patti?

17. Why did Joy, Brian’s wife, call Gale and ask him to fly back to Chicago to see her?

18. What information did Brian find out by accident when Eberle came into Brian’s hospital room and asked him to sign a form?

19. What award did Gale win at the end of the play?

20. Why was Gale going to give the award to Brian?

21. What were Brian’s last words to his wife, according to this play?

22. How old was Brian Piccolo when he died?

23. What disease killed him?

24. How many seasons did he play for the Chicago Bears?

25. How many children did he have?