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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bix challenge his stepfather to do?
(a) Let him go live with his real dad.
(b) Play a one-on-one game of basketball.
(c) Send him to the boarding school and see what Bix does about that.
(d) Take him to see his mother and then let Bix decide if he wants to go back.

2. What does Bix do the next week at school?
(a) He is boisterous and witty.
(b) He is absent from school that week.
(c) He speaks to no one.
(d) He is surly.

3. What changes with Bix as he plays with the lantern?
(a) He becomes joyful.
(b) He becomes calm.
(c) He becomes more agitated.
(d) He is almost in a trance.

4. What does Jerome worry about for his mother?
(a) She may have some emotional lapses.
(b) She may want to take over care of the house too soon.
(c) She may not be able to help him with his problems at school anymore.
(d) Her thinking may have been damaged.

5. How long does Jerome work with Bix on the basketball court?
(a) About 6 weeks.
(b) About 6 months.
(c) About a year.
(d) About a week.

6. What does Jerome try to convince Bix Jerome was doing?
(a) Studying over Bix's basketball moves.
(b) Waiting to see if any other white guys were going to arrive.
(c) Trying to decide if he wanted to come onto the court.
(d) Joking.

7. How is Jerome's question about what they are to make received by the girls?
(a) The female students are glad he brings up some valid points.
(b) The female students are shocked at his boldness.
(c) The girls think Jerome has a valid point.
(d) The girls ignore Jerome.

8. What is Bix's stepfather doing as Jerome leaves?
(a) Sitting on a bench crying.
(b) Shouting at Bix.
(c) Sitting on a bench with his head in his hands.
(d) Shooting baskets in the dark.

9. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?
(a) He realizes he's angry with Bix.
(b) He cries.
(c) He's embarrassed that he needs his mother's advice.
(d) He's sad that Bix seems to not like him that much.

10. Of what does Bix accuse Jerome?
(a) Blinding him with the light so he could not retaliate.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Lying.
(d) Taking advantage of Bix's inexperience.

11. Who does Jerome say moves like a real player(s)?
(a) Bix.
(b) Bix and his stepfather.
(c) Both Bix and the stepfather?
(d) Bix's stepfather.

12. How long is it before Jerome sees Bix again after the disagreement about moves on the court?
(a) About 3 weeks.
(b) About 4 months.
(c) About 6 months.
(d) About 2 months.

13. What does Bix's stepfather agree to do though he is clearly tired?
(a) Talk with Bix about his mother.
(b) Continue playing.
(c) Play a three-way game.
(d) Nothing.

14. What does Jerome's mother say she wants to do before Jerome goes with Bix to the hospital?
(a) Meet Bix's mother.
(b) Talk to Bix's stepfather.
(c) Meet Bix.
(d) Nothing.

15. What is Bix's challenge about?
(a) Jerome needing to pin down parentage.
(b) Jerome not getting on the team the year before.
(c) Jerome's need to define everything in words.
(d) Jerome being more obsessed about skin color than Bix.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Jerome use his secluded basketball court now?

2. What does Jerome say Bix needs to add to his game?

3. What does Jerome's mother encourage all three of her sons to do?

4. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?

5. How does Bix seem in Home Economics class?

(see the answer keys)

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