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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who shows up in the middle of the game that Jerome is describing?
(a) A beautiful white woman.
(b) A police office.
(c) A few gang members.
(d) A tall, handsome white man.

3. What is hidden in a grove of trees?
(a) A gang hideout.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A basketball court.
(d) A hangout for Jerome and his friends.

4. Why does Jerome do that keeps the white students from bothering him?
(a) Wears a set of brass knuckles.
(b) Avoids any possible confrontation.
(c) Beats up a boy who calls him "nigger".
(d) Offers to help some students with their assignments.

5. What is one reason it is appropriate for Jerome to write about Bix?
(a) Jerome is a writer.
(b) Jerome loves the truth.
(c) Jerome loves drama.
(d) Jerome is now a preacher.

6. Why is Jerome angry?
(a) His father would not let him play baseball.
(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 insisted he play football.

7. For what do Jerome and his mother prepare?
(a) A pre-school party.
(b) The start of school as always.
(c) A basketball tournament.
(d) Jerome's father's absence for several months.

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

9. Who calls Jerome in to talk with him?
(a) The basketball coach.
(b) The school counselor.
(c) The school nurse.
(d) The principal.

10. Who makes a spectacular play that sends the black team to the bench?
(a) Joey.
(b) Bix.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Jerome.

11. In what city does Jerome live?
(a) Durham.
(b) Wilmington.
(c) Raleigh.
(d) Ashville.

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

13. What does Jerome's mother ask him one day?
(a) If he wants to be something when he grows up.
(b) If he is angry at the world.
(c) Why he is talking to himself.
(d) If he is sad.

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

15. Who is Jerome's unseen opponent?
(a) Himself.
(b) Maurice.
(c) His father.
(d) Bix.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tune does the horn of one of the trucks play?

2. With what class would the other class interfere?

3. What is Bix's stepfather busy gathering?

4. Who else is scheduled to be in Jerome's new class?

5. What does Jerome want to do in church?

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