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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Jerome's mother when she gets home from the hospital?
(a) Bedridden.
(b) Slower, quieter and weaker.
(c) Pretty much back to her old self.
(d) Happy and energetic.

2. Out of what do the Home Economics students practice making hamburger patties?
(a) They use real hamburger.
(b) Flour dough.
(c) Playdough.
(d) Paper mache.

3. About what does Jerome taunt Bix?
(a) Bix's statement to some boys at school.
(b) Bix's suggesting to Jerome the same thing about baseball.
(c) Bix's mother's behavior at a baseball game.
(d) Bix's behavior in Home Economics class.

4. How does Bix respond to Jerome's suggestion about Bix's game?
(a) He says he'll never love basketball like Jerome does.
(b) He says he can beat Jerome without any fancy stuff.
(c) He says baseball is his love and he really does not want to put that much effort into basketball.
(d) He calls the moves Jerome suggests as dishonesty.

5. What changes with Bix as he plays with the lantern?
(a) He is almost in a trance.
(b) He becomes more agitated.
(c) He becomes joyful.
(d) He becomes calm.

6. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?
(a) Jerome dictates the basketball game as if it were a baseball game.
(b) Showing him an underhanded ball throw.
(c) Jerome promises to bring Spin Light to the basketball court.
(d) Making alien noises.

7. What is Bix's challenge about?
(a) Jerome being more obsessed about skin color than Bix.
(b) Jerome needing to pin down parentage.
(c) Jerome not getting on the team the year before.
(d) Jerome's need to define everything in words.

8. How is Jerome's question about what they are to make received by the girls?
(a) The girls ignore Jerome.
(b) The girls think Jerome has a valid point.
(c) The female students are shocked at his boldness.
(d) The female students are glad he brings up some valid points.

9. What does Bix do the next week at school?
(a) He is boisterous and witty.
(b) He speaks to no one.
(c) He is surly.
(d) He is absent from school that week.

10. What does Jerome take with him to his favorite basketball court?
(a) A whistle to scare the dogs.
(b) A new basketball.
(c) His dinner in a paper sack.
(d) His new lantern.

11. Who is Bobo?
(a) A new boy at school.
(b) A friend of Jerome's who is blind.
(c) A friend Bix brings with him.
(d) A big man the black crewman calls up.

12. What does Bix's stepfather agree to do though he is clearly tired?
(a) Continue playing.
(b) Play a three-way game.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Talk with Bix about his mother.

13. What does Jerome pretend as he's hiding in the shadows?
(a) To be an alien from Saturn.
(b) To be a pro basketball player.
(c) To be a detective.
(d) To be a high school basketball recruiter.

14. Who tests the winning pie(s)?
(a) The janitor.
(b) Another teacher.
(c) The nurse.
(d) The principal.

15. What does Jerome realize one night when he is practicing?
(a) Bix is watching him.
(b) A stray dog is watching him.
(c) A train has stopped nearby.
(d) Two older boys are watching him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jerome discover at the basketball court?

2. What does Jerome imagine while he is practicing by himself on the basketball court?

3. What does Miss Pimton say about what they are going to make?

4. What does Jerome notice about Bix's clothes?

5. What does Bix ask of Jerome?

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