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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bix challenge his stepfather to do?
(a) Play a one-on-one game of basketball.
(b) Send him to the boarding school and see what Bix does about that.
(c) Take him to see his mother and then let Bix decide if he wants to go back.
(d) Let him go live with his real dad.

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

3. How is Jerome's mother when she gets home from the hospital?
(a) Bedridden.
(b) Pretty much back to her old self.
(c) Slower, quieter and weaker.
(d) Happy and energetic.

4. What does Jerome realize one night when he is practicing?
(a) Bix is watching him.
(b) A train has stopped nearby.
(c) A stray dog is watching him.
(d) Two older boys are watching him.

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

6. At what does Jerome say Bix is a natural?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Running.
(c) Stand-up comedy.
(d) Basketball.

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

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

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

10. How does Jerome try to break the ice between him and Bix?
(a) By letting Bix choose what they will cook.
(b) With a joke.
(c) With a comment about the teacher.
(d) By saying Jerome admires Bix's short stop abilities.

11. Why does Jerome yell what he does to the person(s) watching him?
(a) The two boys are twirling knives.
(b) The dog is growling.
(c) He's still a little mad at Bix.
(d) The man keeps taunting Jerome.

12. 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.

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

14. What does Bix do the next week at school?
(a) He is absent from school that week.
(b) He speaks to no one.
(c) He is surly.
(d) He is boisterous and witty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do Bix and his stepfather argue?

2. What do the girls suggest about the best looking pie?

3. Who does Jerome discover at the basketball court?

4. How long does Jerome work with Bix on the basketball court?

5. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?

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