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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 new laws are in effect that will affect Jerome?
(a) Integration.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Separate but equal.
(d) None.

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

3. What is one way Jerome decides to make overtures of friendship to a white student?
(a) Seeing who will laugh at his jokes.
(b) Seeing who nods at him.
(c) Listening to their book reports.
(d) Seeing who seems to be relaxed around him.

4. What does Jerome try to do unsuccessfully during the car ride to the hospital?
(a) Find out more about Bix's father.
(b) Find out more about Bix's mother.
(c) Tell a couple jokes.
(d) Make small talk.

5. What is Bix's stepfather doing as Jerome leaves?
(a) Sitting on a bench crying.
(b) Shouting at Bix.
(c) Shooting baskets in the dark.
(d) Sitting on a bench with his head in his hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first person to notice Jerome's behavior?

2. Who calls Jerome in to talk with him?

3. To what does the phrase "spin light" pertain?

4. How long has Jerome known Bix before Bix runs away?

5. What does Jerome realize as he watches Bix's stepfather warm up?

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