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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Part, Section 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what do Jerome and his mother prepare?
(a) A pre-school party.
(b) Jerome's father's absence for several months.
(c) The start of school as always.
(d) A basketball tournament.

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

3. What is hidden in a grove of trees?
(a) A basketball court.
(b) A hangout for Jerome and his friends.
(c) A gang hideout.
(d) A skeleton.

4. Who is coaching the team that Jerome is watching the night he meets Bix?
(a) Bix's father.
(b) Mr. Steller.
(c) Jerome's brother.
(d) Jerome's father.

5. What does Jerome offer for Bix to do?
(a) Meet Jerome there every night.
(b) Go home with Jerome for dinner.
(c) Start back in the home economics class.
(d) Teach Jerome baseball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes with Bix as he plays with the lantern?

2. Who ensures that the bet is paid by the loser?

3. What chore does Jerome assume at home?

4. What does the person notice about Jerome's behavior?

5. What are the students to make the next time Jerome goes to his Home Economics class?

(see the answer key)

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