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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is it before Jerome sees Bix again after the disagreement about moves on the court?
(a) About 2 months.
(b) About 6 months.
(c) About 3 weeks.
(d) About 4 months.

2. 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 boisterous and witty.
(d) He is surly.

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

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

5. What happens in Jerome's Home Economics class the next week?
(a) Jerome quits the class.
(b) Bix comes in and yells at the teacher and then sulks in the corner.
(c) Bix does not attend and drops out completely.
(d) Bix comes in and demands they make something real.

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

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

8. What is bounceball?
(a) What Bix calls basketball.
(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 soccer ball.
(d) A game elementary children play with a hoop that is only four feet off the ground.

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

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

11. What do the girls suggest about the best looking pie?
(a) It be given to the football team.
(b) It be given to the basketball team.
(c) It be given to the principal.
(d) It be baked first.

12. What was Bix's mother's response to Bix saying he did not love her?
(a) Attempted suicide.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She says she does not love Bix.
(d) She slaps him.

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

14. What does Jerome's momma realize that Jerome's been neglecting?
(a) His basketball.
(b) His grandparents.
(c) His music.
(d) His academic courses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome's mother say to Bix privately?

2. What does Jerome realize as a result of Bix challenging him?

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

4. For what is Bobo in line?

5. What does Bix start incorporating into his game?

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