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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Last Part, Sections 25 and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing about Bix Rivers to which Jerome refers?
(a) His disappearance.
(b) His rebellion against authority.
(c) His talent for seeing the truth.
(d) His talent for singing.

2. About what do Bix and his stepfather argue?
(a) Bix going to a boarding school.
(b) Bix going to visit his mother in the psychiatric hospital.
(c) Bix doing his school work.
(d) Bix playing two major sports.

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

4. What does Bix say everyone is doing?
(a) Telling lies.
(b) Laughing at him.
(c) Talking about him.
(d) Poisoning the pies.

5. What difference does Jerome describe concerning sports leagues?
(a) He does not mention any differences.
(b) The difference between the coach of the football league versus the one of the soccer league.
(c) The difference between Jerome's favorite sport versus Bix's favorite sport.
(d) The differences between the popular, well-supported white little league and the less-popular, poorly-supported black little league.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jerome's question about what they are to make received by the girls?

2. What is one thing Jerome learns when he starts school that Fall?

3. What do the boys trying out for the basketball team already have?

4. Who does the man with whom Jerome say he is?

5. To what does the phrase "spin light" pertain?

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