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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Jerome known Bix before Bix runs away?
(a) The three years of high school.
(b) Since they were babies.
(c) Since they were five.
(d) About a year.

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

3. Why is Mattie Sue happy about Jerome's arrival in Home Economics class?
(a) Her parents are supporters of the civil rights movement.
(b) So she can get out of cooking a cake that day.
(c) So Jerome will partner with Jackson.
(d) So Jerome will partner with Baxter.

4. What does Jerome eventually recover?
(a) His sense of honor.
(b) His belief in Bix's goodness.
(c) His belief in his father's wisdom.
(d) His sense of privacy.

5. Where is Bix's mother?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) No one knows.

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

7. Who is the first person to notice Jerome's behavior?
(a) Bix.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

8. 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.

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

10. What is one class Jerome mentions he enjoys?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Art.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

11. What is Jerome's preferred sport?
(a) Football.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Baseball.

12. What does one of the white players say after the pick up game?
(a) That Jerome is the best basketball player there.
(b) That Jerome is uppity for thinking of trying out for the team.
(c) That the coach is a racist pig.
(d) That Jerome could help them win the state championship.

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

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

15. About what is Jerome angry?
(a) That Bix's stepfather lies about Bix.
(b) That Bix does not tell Jerome where Bix is.
(c) The way Bix is talked about in church.
(d) That Bix's mother deserted him.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does the visitor to Jerome's home assure Jerome?

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

3. Who makes a spectacular play that sends the black team to the bench?

4. What is the effect of the person going with Jerome?

5. Where does Jerome find directions to care for a baseball glove?

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