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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Jerome's mother not pay attention to concerning other people?
(a) Their social status.
(b) Their achievements.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Who they're not and what they don't do.

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

3. For what class is Jerome late?
(a) Shop.
(b) Home Economics.
(c) History.
(d) Algebra.

4. What do the younger siblings of some of the ball players do?
(a) Start fighting.
(b) Borrow shirts from both the black and the white players.
(c) Play a pick up game.
(d) Try to get their older brothers to buy them refreshments.

5. What does Jerome want to do in church?
(a) Sing a solo.
(b) He does not go to church.
(c) Tell the truth about Bix.
(d) Answer the altar call.

6. Who accompanies Jerome most summer days?
(a) His youngest brother.
(b) No one.
(c) His two older brothers.
(d) His best friend, Harold.

7. Who goes with Jerome one day to play basketball?
(a) Poke.
(b) Bix.
(c) Maurice.
(d) His father.

8. What school had Jerome planned to attend?
(a) Chestnut.
(b) Third Avenue.
(c) Parker.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

9. What does Maurice go off to college to do?
(a) Become a pilot.
(b) Become a pediatrician.
(c) Become a psychiatrist.
(d) Become an architect.

10. What happens when Jerome calls Braxton Rivers "luck"?
(a) The counselor says Braxton is quite lucky.
(b) The counselor says Braxton is dropping out of school.
(c) The counselor says that remains to be seen.
(d) The counselor frowns and says nothing.

11. Who are some people Jerome's brother continually analyzes?
(a) Jerome's brother's teachers.
(b) Jerome's brother's Sunday school teacher and the church's preacher.
(c) The baseball team the brother coaches.
(d) Jerome's brother's classmates.

12. What is Bix's stepfather busy gathering?
(a) Information about where Bix's mother could be.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Testimony against his business partner.
(d) Sympathy.

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

14. How does Jerome characterize his behavior that summer?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Fun.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Enlightening.

15. How does the counselor respond to Jerome's choice of schedule change?
(a) She is happy to see Jerome making the choice to stay in French class.
(b) She thinks Jerome is unaware of the impact of his choice.
(c) She disapproves it.
(d) She reluctantly approves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome eventually recover?

2. What chore does Jerome assume at home?

3. Why does Jerome worry that some people might think he is a thief?

4. What does the person do who shows up in the middle of the game?

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

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