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The film begins with a look at the devastating injury suffered by which NFL quarterback?
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Terry Bradshaw
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Joe Montana
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Joe Theismann
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Fran Tarkenton
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The Tuohys live in this state, where football is a big deal:
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Texas
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Michigan
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Tennessee
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North Carolina
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At the beginning of the film, we see Michael being questioned by a woman as part of an investigation. We eventually learn that the woman is from:
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The Justice Department
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The NCAA
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The District Attorney's office
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A television news program
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Michael comes to the school he eventually attends with a man called:
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Sweet Lou
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Big Tony
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Fast Eddie
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Big Danny
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While most of Michael's test scores are extremely low, he excels in this area:
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Potential for learning
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Problem solving ability
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Protective instincts
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Empathic concern
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For the majority of first quarter of the film, Michael wears this:
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A blue polo shirt and shorts
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A brown jacket and blue jeans
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A black sweatshirt and shorts
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An Oakland Raiders t-shirt and torn black pants
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Leigh Anne's occupation is:
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Travel agent
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Wedding planner
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Interior decorator
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Court stenographer
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Leigh Anne invites Michael over to her house as the Tuohys encounter him walking by himself late one night. Where does Michael say that he is going, so that he can get warm?
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The laundromat
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A homeless shelter
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A hospital
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A gym
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Michael's introduction to the Tuhoy house comes as what holiday nears?
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Thanksgiving
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Easter
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Fourth of July
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New Year's Eve
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When Leigh Anne takes Michael by his mother's, he finds:
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She has been evicted
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She is dead
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She hasn't been seen by anyone for months
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Her using drugs
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Leigh Anne takes Michael shopping for clothes. He chooses this type of shirt, which he wears for a good part of the film
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Oxbord button-downs
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Striped rugby shirts
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Hawaiian aloha shirts
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Turtlenecks
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Leigh Anne gives Michael something he says he has never had before. What is it?
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His own towel
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A bed
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More than one shirt to wear at a time
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A photograph of himself
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The Tuohys and Michael go out to dinner, and Michael meets someone he knows in the restaurant. Who is it?
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His father
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A minister that Michael used to stay with
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His cousin
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His brother
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Who raises the question of whether Leigh Anne's daughter is save living in the same house as Michael?
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Her co-worker
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The women she has lunch with
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A teacher at the school
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Michael's mother
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Michael joins his school's football team. What letter on the side of the team's helmets?
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Q
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M
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R
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W
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This person helps Michael train to get in shape for football during the summer:
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SJ, the Tuohys' son
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Collins, the Tuohy's daughter
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Leigh Anne
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The head football coach
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Why does Michael say he wants a drivers license?
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So he can be more independent
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So he can visit colleges that recruit him
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So that he can carry something with his name on it
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So he can go out and visit his mother frequently
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Investigating how to become Michael's legal guardian, Leigh Anne learns this startling fact about Michael's mother:
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She has had at least a dozen children
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She has been dead for five years
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She is a janitor at Michael's school
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She is in prison
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When Leigh Anne asks Michael if he'd like to become part of their family, he answers:
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That he already has a family
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That he'd like to talk to his mother before he agrees
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He thought he already was
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By nodding silently
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SJ uses these to diagram plays for Michael:
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Condiment and spice bottles
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Spools of thread
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Barnyard animal finger puppets
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His mother's crystal figurines
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Michael and SJ sing this song when they get into a traffic accident:
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Ice Ice Baby
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Sweet Home Alabama
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I Will Always Love You
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Bust a Move
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Leigh Anne eventually realizes this about the car accident:
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That SJ, not Michael, was driving
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The other driver was one of the women from her lunch circle
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That Michael blocked the airbag from injuring SJ
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That Michael suffered cracked ribs during the accident
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Which of the following was true about the first football game in which Michael played?
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Even though it was a home game, there were lots of visiting fans
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Michael allowed a sack that left the quarterback badly injured
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Michael's team was shut out
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Michael's coach was ejected from the game
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Michael's prospect for college seemed dim in that he needed this GPA:
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3.0
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2.5
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2.75
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3.25
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Miss Sue, Michael's tutor, made this comment about the University of Tennessee's football stadium:
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Fans had to sit in the stadium according to their race
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The field was 3 yards too long and 2 yards too narrow
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Body parts of dead people were buried underneath
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It was the site of a Civil War battle
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The film contains cameos by several actual college football coaches. Which of the following is not among them?
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Nick Saban
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Lou Holtz
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Steve Spurrier
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Phil Fulmer
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Working diligently with his tutor and teachers, Michael's grades improve, except in English. What poem was pivotal to Michael passing the class?
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Kublai Khan
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Death Be Not Proud
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The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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28.
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The film provides a few brief flashbacks depicting Michael's childhood. The most vivid of these comes at the end of the year, when we see:
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Michael's father being killed
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Michael being taken from his mother
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Michael's uncle beating him
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Michael running away from home
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29.
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Michael satisfies the woman from the NCAA by saying that the reason he wants to play football at Ole Miss is:
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It's the best place for him to grow as a person
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That's where his family went
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The Ole Miss coach treated him with respect
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It would break his mother's heart if he went to Tennessee
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30.
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The film ended with Michael being drafted by this NFL team:
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Denver Broncos
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Dallas Cowboys
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Miami Dolphins
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Baltimore Ravens
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