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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Last Part, Sections 23 and 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Jerome's mother when she gets home from the hospital?
(a) Bedridden.
(b) Slower, quieter and weaker.
(c) Pretty much back to her old self.
(d) Happy and energetic.

2. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Jeb.
(b) Bix.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Jerome.

3. Who does Jerome discover at the basketball court?
(a) Three policemen and Bix.
(b) The drug dealers.
(c) Jerome's middle brother.
(d) Bix.

4. Who does Jerome look for but cannot find?
(a) Bix's stepfather.
(b) The black coach.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Bix.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bix's stepfather busy gathering?

2. What does Jerome notice about Bix's clothes?

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

4. How does Jerome characterize his behavior that summer?

5. About what does Jerome say his mother is angry?

(see the answer key)

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