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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jerome realize as he watches Bix's stepfather warm up?
(a) The stepfather is a dominating man.
(b) The stepfather has not played that much basketball.
(c) Bix will have a very hard time winning.
(d) Bix will easily win.

2. What does Jerome try to convince Bix Jerome was doing?
(a) Studying over Bix's basketball moves.
(b) Trying to decide if he wanted to come onto the court.
(c) Joking.
(d) Waiting to see if any other white guys were going to arrive.

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

4. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?
(a) He's embarrassed that he needs his mother's advice.
(b) He realizes he's angry with Bix.
(c) He's sad that Bix seems to not like him that much.
(d) He cries.

5. What does Bix call what he does with the lantern?
(a) Gigging.
(b) Spin Light.
(c) Whirly light.
(d) Light circle.

6. When does Bix say he will visit his mother?
(a) He does not say.
(b) The next day.
(c) In another month.
(d) The following Friday.

7. What does Jerome hear as he is approaching the court?
(a) The sound of a dog growling.
(b) The sound of a police megaphone.
(c) The sound of a basketball bouncing.
(d) The sound of several boys' voices.

8. What does Jerome's mother want Jerome to do with what he wins?
(a) Let everyone in the family use it.
(b) Pawn it for food for the family.
(c) Return it.
(d) She does not care.

9. Who does Jerome discover at the basketball court?
(a) Bix.
(b) Jerome's middle brother.
(c) The drug dealers.
(d) Three policemen and Bix.

10. What does Jerome notice about Bix's shoes?
(a) They are well shined.
(b) The shoe laces are from tennis shoes.
(c) They have holes in them.
(d) They are terribly scuffed.

11. How does Jerome feel about learning who his partner is?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Surprised.

12. How does Bix seem in Home Economics class?
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Confident.
(c) Shy and uncomfortable.
(d) Embarrassed.

13. For what is Bobo in line?
(a) To be engineer.
(b) To be admitted to the home economics class.
(c) To play football if the injured boy does not recover.
(d) A spot on a professional basketball team.

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

15. Where has Jerome seen his partner before?
(a) In the principal's office.
(b) At the hospital when Jerome is visiting his mother.
(c) At church.
(d) At the ball field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Jerome ask Bix that Bix challenges?

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

3. What is bounceball?

4. What are the students to make the next time Jerome goes to his Home Economics class?

5. How does Jerome calm Bix?

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