2015-16 Basketball Exam Part I
NOTE: In the exam situations, A refers to offensive team and B refers to their opponents, the defensive team. A1 and B1 are
players of Team A and Team B. Unless otherwise stated: a single foul or free throw exists; all equipment, situations and acts
are legal; a tap is toward the tapper’s basket; and it is a two-point field goal. No errors or mistakes are involved unless noted.
1. An alternating-possession throw-in always follows opponents committing simultaneous basket interference violations.
A. True
B. False
2. Following the initial jump ball, if A2 muffs the tapped ball and it goes out of bounds, the alternating procedure starts when the
ball is placed at the disposal of the Team B thrower.
A. True
B. False
3. If tapper A1 catches the referee's toss during the opening jump ball, Team B gains the first possession and the arrow is set
toward A's basket.
A. True
B. False
4. A flagrant foul may be either personal or technical.
A. True
B. False
5. If Team A legally controls the game-starting jump ball, the arrow will be set toward Team B's basket.
A. True
B. False
6. It is alternating possession if B1 disconcerts and free thrower A1 violates.
A. True
B. False
7. With the clock running, the head coach may go, without penalty, to the scorer's table to request a time-out regarding a
correctable error.
A. True
B. False
8. The head coach may use electronic voice communication equipment to communicate with players.
A. True
B. False
9. The head coach is responsible for the conduct of all bench personnel.
A. True
B. False
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10. The head coach is assessed one direct technical foul for each player discovered in the game wearing an illegal uniform.
A. True
B. False
11. The head coach is assessed an indirect technical foul when a disqualified player is removed and is subsequently
discovered participating in the game.
A. True
B. False
12. Correctable errors are limited to five specific situations, all involving scoring issues, when a rule is inadvertently set aside.
A. True
B. False
13. If an error is corrected, in some cases, play shall continue from the normal game action resulting from the correction.
A. True
B. False
14. If the error is made while the clock is running and the ball dead, it must be recognized by an official before the second live
ball following the error in order to be corrected.
A. True
B. False
15. A red light behind each backboard or an LED light on each backboard is permitted to signal that time has expired for a
quarter or extra period.
A. True
B. False
16. A team's jersey may have a single visible manufacturer's logo/trademark/reference.
A. True
B. False
17. A visible display shall be located at the scorer's table to indicate team possession for the alternating-possession procedure.
A. True
B. False
18. Contrasting colored floor areas may be used instead of the 2-inch boundary lines.
A. True
B. False
19. "Point of interruption" is a method of resuming play after a double personal or double technical foul.
A. True
B. False
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20. A ball which touches a player is the same as the ball touching the floor at that player's location.
A. True
B. False
21. A closely-guarded count continues when a defensive switch occurs, provided the 6-foot distance is maintained.
A. True
B. False
22. A common foul is a personal foul that is not flagrant, intentional or committed against a player trying or tapping for a field
goal, or part of a double, simultaneous or multiple foul.
A. True
B. False
23. A designated throw-in spot is 3 feet wide with no depth limitation.
A. True
B. False
24. A flagrant foul may be either personal or technical.
A. True
B. False
25. A foul against an airborne shooter is a foul in the act of shooting even though the ball is already in flight.
A. True
B. False
26. A multiple foul is a situation in which two or more opponents commit personal fouls against each other at approximately the
same time.
A. True
B. False
27. A player may legally use arms and hands or hips to move the screener aside in order to maintain guarding position on an
opponent with the ball.
A. True
B. False
28. A player may use his or her forearm and/or hand to prevent an opponent from attacking the ball during a dribble.
A. True
B. False
29. A team may be issued a delay-of-game warning following a time-out for water on the floor.
A. True
B. False
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30. A try for a field goal ends if the thrown ball touches any player.
A. True
B. False
31. After B1 obtains a legal guarding position, he or she is not required to have either or both feet on the playing court or
continue facing the opponent to maintain legal position.
A. True
B. False
32. An intentional foul is not based on the severity of the act.
A. True
B. False
33. Charging is legal action which prevents an opponent from reaching a desired position.
A. True
B. False
34. The length of the intermission between each extra period is two minutes.
A. True
B. False
35. A throw-in under the alternating-possession procedure shall start each extra period.
A. True
B. False
36. Once the ball becomes live in an extra period, the extra period will be played even though a correction in score is made.
A. True
B. False
37. The length of each extra period in a varsity contest is four minutes.
A. True
B. False
38. A team-control foul can also be intentional or flagrant.
A. True
B. False
39. All common fouls in the last two minutes of the game are automatically intentional.
A. True
B. False
40. An intentional foul can only occur during a live ball.
A. True
B. False
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41. An unsporting foul consists of unfair, unethical or dishonorable conduct.
A. True
B. False
42. Contact after the ball has become dead is incidental, unless it is ruled intentional or flagrant, or committed by or on an
airborne shooter.
A. True
B. False
43. If a ball handler/dribbler has his/her back to the basket outside the lane area and an opponent places an arm bar on the
player, it is not a foul.
A. True
B. False
44. The head coach may enter the court in the situation where a fight may break out or has broken out to prevent the situation
from escalating.
A. True
B. False
45. A free throw begins when the free thrower receives the ball from the official and it ends when the ball is clearly in flight.
A. True
B. False
46. A player in a marked lane space shall position one foot near the outer edge of the free-throw lane line.
A. True
B. False
47. A substitute for the offended team may enter the game and attempt the second free throw awarded for a technical foul.
A. True
B. False
48. A substitute free throw is awarded if there are simultaneous violations by opponents and the try is unsuccessful.
A. True
B. False
49. A substitute throw is awarded if B1 violates and A1's attempt is unsuccessful.
A. True
B. False
50. A violation has occurred when B1, in a marked space, loses his/her balance and touches inside the lane with both hands
prior to A1's release of a free-throw attempt.
A. True
B. False
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51. Any player, other than the free thrower, who does not occupy a marked lane space must be behind the free-throw line
extended and behind the three-point line.
A. True
B. False
52. During a final free-throw attempt by A1, B2 commits basket interference. The goal will count and Team B will receive the
ball out of bounds for a throw-in.
A. True
B. False
53. Following a time-out or intermission, A1's free throw shall be administered even though Team B is not occupying each of
the lane spaces adjacent to the end line.
A. True
B. False
54. Following a time-out, if free thrower, A1, is not in the free-throw semicircle when the administering official is ready, a
technical foul for delay is charged to A1.
A. True
B. False
55. A ball that is in contact with two players is in the backcourt if either player is touching the backcourt.
A. True
B. False
56. A ball which is in flight retains the same status it had when last in contact with a player or the court.
A. True
B. False
57. If A1 ends the dribble and holds the ball with one foot touching in A's frontcourt and the other on the division line, the ball is
in the frontcourt.
A. True
B. False
58. The ball is in A's backcourt when A1 holds the ball straddling the division line and then pivots on the foot which is in A's
frontcourt.
A. True
B. False
59. A player is entitled to a standing (vertical) position, even to the extent of holding the arms above the shoulders.
A. True
B. False
60. A player who extends an arm, shoulder, hip or leg into the path of an opponent is not considered to have had a legal
position if contact occurs.
A. True
B. False
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61. If the opponent with the ball is airborne, the guard may obtain legal position in the opponent's landing spot after the
opponent is airborne.
A. True
B. False
62. The guard is responsible for contact if the dribbler has been able to get his or her head and shoulders past the guard's
torso.
A. True
B. False
63. The defender placing a hand on a ball handler is not an advantage to the defender and should be considered incidental
contact.
A. True
B. False
64. A jumper is required to be in his/her proper half of the center restraining circle during a jump ball, but is not required to face
his/her own basket.
A. True
B. False
65. After the ball is tossed but before it is tapped, nonjumpers may have a foot break the plane of the restraining circle.
A. True
B. False
66. During a jump ball, the ball becomes live when it is tapped.
A. True
B. False
67. It is a violation if jumper A1 catches the tapped ball before it has touched the floor.
A. True
B. False
68. Nonjumpers may change positions around the restraining circle when the official is ready to make the toss.
A. True
B. False
69. If a throw-in is to follow, the ball becomes dead when a free throw ends whether it is made or missed.
A. True
B. False
70. The ball becomes dead and it is a technical foul when B1 excessively swings his/her elbows.
A. True
B. False
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71. The ball becomes dead immediately if a tap by A1 is in flight toward A's basket when time expires.
A. True
B. False
72. The ball becomes dead immediately when airborne shooter A1 commits a player-control foul.
A. True
B. False
73. The ball becomes dead on a free throw when the try hits the floor.
A. True
B. False
74. A single timer and a single scorer may be used if they are trained personnel acceptable to the referee.
A. True
B. False
75. An official shall notify the coach, request the timer to begin the replacement interval, and then notify the player of his/her
disqualification.
A. True
B. False
76. An official shall silently and visibly count seconds while administering the rules for a throw-in, free throw, backcourt, closely
guarded and three seconds.
A. True
B. False
77. Any official has the authority to designate the official timer and scorer.
A. True
B. False
78. If a mistake has been made and an umpire is still on the floor at the end of the game, he/she may call the referee back to
make the correction.
A. True
B. False
79. A player is out of bounds when he/she touches the floor, or any object other than a player, on or outside a boundary.
A. True
B. False
80. While the ball is being held by A1 near the endline, B1 knocks the ball from A1's hands causing it to go out-of-bounds. Ball
is awarded to A1 for a throw in.
A. True
B. False
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81. All edges of a rectangular backboard are out of bounds.
A. True
B. False
82. If A1 jumps from out of bounds, A1 is considered inbounds while airborne.
A. True
B. False
83. A1 causes the ball to go out-of-bounds when a pass by A1 touches B1 before touching an official and then going out-ofbounds.
A. True
B. False
84. A player-control foul is counted toward reaching the team bonus.
A. True
B. False
85. A player is disqualified if he or she has been charged with one technical foul and four personal fouls.
A. True
B. False
86. A technical foul for unsporting bench conduct by a team member carries a penalty of two free throw plus the ball for a
division line throw-in and is charged to the offender and also indirectly to the head coach.
A. True
B. False
87. A technical foul is called if a player leaves the court for an unauthorized reason.
A. True
B. False
88. After the specified time limit, it is one technical foul if the coach of Team A makes two unauthorized changes in the starting
lineup.
A. True
B. False
89. If a player is disqualified for a flagrant technical foul, the offender is ejected and sent away from the bench area.
A. True
B. False
90. Fifteen seconds before the expiration of a 60-second time-out, the timer shall sound a warning signal.
A. True
B. False
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91. If the timer's signal fails to sound, the timer may go onto the court to immediately notify the referee.
A. True
B. False
92. The official scorebook shall remain at the scorer's table throughout the game.
A. True
B. False
93. The scorer shall signal for a substitution if the substitute has reported, is ready and is entitled to enter provided the ball is
dead and the clock is stopped.
A. True
B. False
94. If a game is forfeited to the team ahead in the score, the score shall be recorded as 2-0 in that team's favor.
A. True
B. False
95. If A1 scores a field goal in B's basket, it is credited to the Team B player closest to the basket.
A. True
B. False
96. If the officials, by mistake, permit the teams to go the wrong direction, when discovered all points scored shall count as if
each team had gone the proper direction.
A. True
B. False
97. When screening a moving opponent, the screener must allow the opponent time and distance to avoid contact.
A. True
B. False
98. When a player screens in front of or at the side of a stationary opponent, the screener must allow the opponent one normal
step toward the screener without contact.
A. True
B. False
99. A player need only have the front of the team jersey tucked in to be eligible to participate.
A. True
B. False
100. By state association adoption, a commemorative/memorial number patch may be worn on the uniform jersey provided it is
above the neckline or in the side insert.
A. True
B. False
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Answer Key:
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True
6. False (Tip:
Disconcertion always
supercedes and is
penalized)
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. False
11. False
12. True
13. True (Point of
Interruption)
14. True
15. True
16. True
17. True
18. True
19. True
20. True
21. True
22. True
23. True
24. True
25. True
26. False
27. False
28. False
29. True
30. False
31. True
32. True
33. False
34. False
35. False
36. True
37. True
38. False
39. False
40. False
41. True
42. True
43. False
44. True
45. False
46. True
47. True
48. False
49. True
50. True
51. True
52. True (Note: Team
B may run the end
line)
53. True
54. False( Note: The
official should place
the ball down inside
the semicircle and the
trail or center-3-man
will begin the 10second count)
55. True
56. True
57. False
58. False
59. True
60. True
61. False
62. True
63. False
64. True
65. False
66. False
67. True
68. False
69. True (this question
is vague and not
specific enough to
answer)
70. False
71. False
72. True
73. False(True is
acceptable, also.
Question would be
thrown out. Doesn’t
say if a subsequent
free throw is to follow)
74. True
75. True
76. False
77. False
78. True
79. True
80. True
81. False
82. False
83. False
84. True
85. True
86. True
87. False
88. True (Team
Technical Foul)
89. False
90. True
91. True
92. True
93. True
94. False
95. False
96. True
97. True
98. False
99. False
100. False
Thanks, Dave
Dunning