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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Second Part, Sections 11 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jerome's mother ask him one day?
(a) If he is angry at the world.
(b) Why he is talking to himself.
(c) If he is sad.
(d) If he wants to be something when he grows up.

2. What is one thing Jerome learns when he starts school that Fall?
(a) He will have to work much harder than the white students.
(b) He will probably not be very popular.
(c) In some ways, people at the white school aren't that much different from people at the black one.
(d) There are good reasons why schools are segregated.

3. Who is Jerome's unseen opponent?
(a) Bix.
(b) Himself.
(c) Maurice.
(d) His father.

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

5. How does Jerome characterize his behavior that summer?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Fun.
(d) Enlightening.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Jerome's preferred sport?

3. What is one reason it is appropriate for Jerome to write about Bix?

4. What does Jerome want to do in church?

5. What will be unique about Jerome's situation?

(see the answer key)

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