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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bix react to the first part of the contest?
(a) He is encouraged at the idea that he will win.
(b) He becomes confused.
(c) He is discouraged and slows down.
(d) He stops and refuses to play.

2. What does Miss Pimton say about what they are going to make?
(a) It is less tasty than the real thing.
(b) It has much less sugar than the real thing.
(c) It is cheaper than the real thing.
(d) It is more nutritious than the real thing.

3. What is Jerome prepared to do the next time he goes to his Home Economics class?
(a) Be asked to leave the class.
(b) Dislike the teacher.
(c) Prove he can cook better than the girls.
(d) Meet his partner.

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

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

6. What is counting quietly as Jerome approaches the basketball court?
(a) An unknown voice.
(b) Jerome.
(c) Jerome's brother Maurice.
(d) A police officer.

7. Who is at the basketball court when Jerome arrives for the challenge?
(a) Bix's mother and stepfather.
(b) No one.
(c) Bix.
(d) Bix's stepfather.

8. What does Bix ask of Jerome?
(a) To run away with him.
(b) To be able to hold the lantern.
(c) To play baseball on Bix's team.
(d) To talk to Bix's stepfather.

9. What does Bix say everyone is doing?
(a) Telling lies.
(b) Laughing at him.
(c) Talking about him.
(d) Poisoning the pies.

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

11. What does Jerome imagine while he is practicing by himself on the basketball court?
(a) Getting on the high school team.
(b) Playing against Bix.
(c) A scout seeing him.
(d) Playing for the pros.

12. Who wins the anonymous contest Miss Pimton sets up?
(a) It's a three-way tie.
(b) Mollie and Anne.
(c) It's a two-way tie.
(d) Bix and Jerome.

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

14. Why does Bix look for a new place to play basketball?
(a) The old place is locked up.
(b) The old place is too far away.
(c) The old place has some rough-looking boys playing there.
(d) The old place has been torn down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome yell to who is watching him?

2. What does Bix's stepfather say affected Bix's relationship with his mother?

3. How does Jerome feel about learning who his partner is?

4. For what does Jerome pretend to be searching?

5. What does Bix do the next week at school?

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