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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Part, Sections 20 and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jerome eventually recover?
(a) His sense of privacy.
(b) His belief in his father's wisdom.
(c) His sense of honor.
(d) His belief in Bix's goodness.

2. What do the boys trying out for the basketball team already have?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Places on the team.
(c) Uniforms.
(d) The coach's approval.

3. Why is Mattie Sue happy about Jerome's arrival in Home Economics class?
(a) So Jerome will partner with Baxter.
(b) Her parents are supporters of the civil rights movement.
(c) So she can get out of cooking a cake that day.
(d) So Jerome will partner with Jackson.

4. What school had Jerome planned to attend?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Parker.
(c) Chestnut.
(d) Third Avenue.

5. Where is the new court where Jerome practices?
(a) Near some train tracks.
(b) In a predominantly white section of town.
(c) Near a junkyard.
(d) Near the city dump.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome realize after his mother asks him a question about his behavior?

2. What is hidden in a grove of trees?

3. About what does the visitor to Jerome's home assure Jerome?

4. What does Jerome's mother ask him one day?

5. What happens in Jerome's Home Economics class the next week?

(see the answer key)

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