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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. How does Jerome calm Bix?
(a) Challenges him to a pick-up game of basketball.
(b) Tells Bix why he admires his baseball playing.
(c) Tells Bix a joke.
(d) Calls him Bix instead of Baxter.

2. What happens to Jerome's mother?
(a) She is falsely arrested for stealing from her employer.
(b) She hurts her back.
(c) She is fired from her job because of Jerome going to a white school.
(d) She sustains a serious head injury.

3. What position does Bix play on the baseball team?
(a) Left field.
(b) Pitcher.
(c) Shortstop.
(d) First base.

4. What does Jerome later find out when he first thought things were back to being right in his secret place?
(a) They were not right.
(b) The secret place is owned by a white racists.
(c) The secret place is about to be torn up.
(d) Many boys knew about the secret place.

5. What will be unique about Jerome's situation?
(a) He will be allowed to waive the mandatory requirements.
(b) He will be one of only about 50 black students.
(c) He will be allowed to play on the basketball team.
(d) He will be the only black student.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Jerome's Communications teacher lecture Jerome?

2. Who sponsors the white team that traditionally visits a black team at the beginning of the season?

3. What new laws are in effect that will affect Jerome?

4. Why is Mattie Sue happy about Jerome's arrival in Home Economics class?

5. What is hidden in a grove of trees?

(see the answer key)

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