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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Last Part, Sections 27 and 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jerome's mother say to Bix privately?
(a) To be kind to Jerome who is still an innocent.
(b) To stop thinking the world is against him.
(c) To be kind to Bix's mother.
(d) Jerome does not know.

3. How does Bix respond to Jerome's suggestion about Bix's game?
(a) He says he'll never love basketball like Jerome does.
(b) He calls the moves Jerome suggests as dishonesty.
(c) He says he can beat Jerome without any fancy stuff.
(d) He says baseball is his love and he really does not want to put that much effort into basketball.

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

5. What could Jerome and everyone else in the stands see about one of the spectators?
(a) The person is blind.
(b) Something was going on other than just cheering.
(c) The person knows nothing about baseball.
(d) The person is very wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome later find out when he first thought things were back to being right in his secret place?

2. What does Bix ask of Jerome?

3. What does Jerome's mother say she wants to do before Jerome goes with Bix to the hospital?

4. What animal does Jerome mention while writing about playing basketball?

5. Where has Jerome seen his partner before?

(see the answer key)

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