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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jerome offer for Bix to do?
(a) Go home with Jerome for dinner.
(b) Start back in the home economics class.
(c) Teach Jerome baseball.
(d) Meet Jerome there every night.

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

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

5. What does Jerome's mother say she wants to do before Jerome goes with Bix to the hospital?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Meet Bix.
(c) Meet Bix's mother.
(d) Talk to Bix's stepfather.

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

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

8. What does Bix start incorporating into his game?
(a) Mean comments.
(b) Singing.
(c) Fake moves.
(d) Spinning the ball.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What are the students to make the next time Jerome goes to his Home Economics class?
(a) Mock cherry pie.
(b) Cole slaw.
(c) Tempura.
(d) Mock apple pie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bix respond to Jerome's suggestion about Bix's game?

2. What does Bix call what he does with the lantern?

3. For what does Jerome pretend to be searching?

4. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?

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

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