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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. Why is Jerome angry?
(a) Bix laughs at Jerome when Jerome trips.
(b) His father would not let him play baseball.
(c) He thinks Bix thinks Bix is too good to spend time with black people.
(d) His father insisted he play football.

2. 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.

3. Who sponsors the white team that traditionally visits a black team at the beginning of the season?
(a) Dr. Pepper.
(b) Seven-Up.
(c) Coca-Cola.
(d) Westinghouse.

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

5. What class does Jerome decide to drop in order to change to the suggested class?
(a) Economics.
(b) French.
(c) Communications.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Jerome just before school opens?

2. Where is it possible to play basketball both summer and winter?

3. Why does Jerome do that keeps the white students from bothering him?

4. What is the narrator's name?

5. What does Jerome notice about Bix's shoes?

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