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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Jerome ask Bix that Bix challenges?
(a) If Bix ever thinks of Jerome's skin color.
(b) If they are best friends.
(c) If Bix wants to try out for the basketball team.
(d) If Bix knows his real dad.

2. 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 calm.
(d) He becomes joyful.

3. Who does Jerome say moves like a real player(s)?
(a) Both Bix and the stepfather?
(b) Bix and his stepfather.
(c) Bix's stepfather.
(d) Bix.

4. What does Jerome ask the Home Economics teacher?
(a) Why they are making desserts when they haven't made a main course.
(b) If they can make peach pie instead of cherry pie.
(c) Why they are making fake food?
(d) If they can make chocolate cake instead.

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

6. 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.

7. How does Jerome calm Bix?
(a) Tells Bix a joke.
(b) Tells Bix why he admires his baseball playing.
(c) Calls him Bix instead of Baxter.
(d) Challenges him to a pick-up game of basketball.

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

9. About what do Bix and his stepfather argue?
(a) Bix playing two major sports.
(b) Bix doing his school work.
(c) Bix going to visit his mother in the psychiatric hospital.
(d) Bix going to a boarding school.

10. What does Jerome worry about for his mother?
(a) She may have some emotional lapses.
(b) Her thinking may have been damaged.
(c) She may want to take over care of the house too soon.
(d) She may not be able to help him with his problems at school anymore.

11. What does Jerome's mother encourage all three of her sons to do?
(a) Have a party to have some fun.
(b) Get back to their old routines.
(c) Stay home from school for a week and spend time with her.
(d) Talk more with their dad.

12. What does Jerome's momma realize that Jerome's been neglecting?
(a) His grandparents.
(b) His academic courses.
(c) His basketball.
(d) His music.

13. What does Jerome yell to who is watching him?
(a) He tells Bix to leave him alone.
(b) Scat.
(c) He challenges him to a one-on-one match.
(d) He asks them where they live.

14. Of what does Bix accuse Jerome?
(a) Lying.
(b) Taking advantage of Bix's inexperience.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Blinding him with the light so he could not retaliate.

15. Where is the new court where Jerome practices?
(a) Near a junkyard.
(b) Near some train tracks.
(c) Near the city dump.
(d) In a predominantly white section of town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome realize as a result of Bix challenging him?

2. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?

3. For what is Bobo in line?

4. What is bounceball?

5. How does Jerome try to break the ice between him and Bix?

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