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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 going to a boarding school.
(d) Bix doing his school work.

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

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

5. What is Jerome unable to restrain after a few minutes of hiding in the dark?
(a) His laughter.
(b) His anger.
(c) His happiness.
(d) His fear.

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

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

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

9. Why can Jerome use his secluded basketball court now?
(a) It is summer and the days are longer so there's light longer.
(b) The lantern gives him light to play and to walk home.
(c) The city has installed lights on the court.
(d) His brother is going with him in the family car and using the headlights for Jerome to play.

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

11. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?
(a) He realizes he's angry with Bix.
(b) He's sad that Bix seems to not like him that much.
(c) He cries.
(d) He's embarrassed that he needs his mother's advice.

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

13. Out of what do the Home Economics students practice making hamburger patties?
(a) Flour dough.
(b) Paper mache.
(c) Playdough.
(d) They use real hamburger.

14. 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) Tells Bix a joke.
(d) Calls him Bix instead of Baxter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jerome say moves like a real player(s)?

2. What does Jerome realize one night when he is practicing?

3. What bet is wagered in this section?

4. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?

5. What is counting quietly as Jerome approaches the basketball court?

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