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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bix's stepfather say affected Bix's relationship with his mother?
(a) Bix's obsession with the truth.
(b) Bix's refusal to give in ever.
(c) Bix's obstinacy.
(d) Bix's obsession with his mother being something she is not.

2. What does Jerome notice about Bix's clothes?
(a) They do not match.
(b) They are immaculate and stiff.
(c) They are in the latest style.
(d) They are untidy.

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

4. What is bounceball?
(a) A game elementary children play with a soccer ball.
(b) A pick-up basketball game where you must bounce the ball once for every step you take.
(c) A game elementary children play with a hoop that is only four feet off the ground.
(d) What Bix calls basketball.

5. Where did Bix get the basketball he has with him?
(a) The YMCA.
(b) A department store.
(c) The school gym.
(d) His stepfather.

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

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

8. Who ensures that the bet is paid by the loser?
(a) Some passengers.
(b) Bix.
(c) The guidance counselor.
(d) Jerome's older brother.

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

10. What is Bix doing in the corner of the Home Economics room?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Eating pie.
(c) Talking on his cell phone.
(d) Cutting himself.

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

12. For what does Jerome pretend to be searching?
(a) A murderer.
(b) A black young man for the pro league.
(c) Earth-people games.
(d) A black boy for the all-white high school team.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jerome yell what he does to the person(s) watching him?

2. What is Bix's stepfather doing as Jerome leaves?

3. Where is the new court where Jerome practices?

4. Who is at the basketball court when Jerome arrives for the challenge?

5. What does Bix challenge his stepfather to do?

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