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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jerome pretend as he's hiding in the shadows?
(a) To be an alien from Saturn.
(b) To be a high school basketball recruiter.
(c) To be a detective.
(d) To be a pro basketball player.

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

4. How is Jerome's question about what they are to make received by the girls?
(a) The girls ignore Jerome.
(b) The female students are glad he brings up some valid points.
(c) The female students are shocked at his boldness.
(d) The girls think Jerome has a valid point.

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

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

7. How does Bix respond to Jerome's suggestion about Bix's game?
(a) He says baseball is his love and he really does not want to put that much effort into basketball.
(b) He calls the moves Jerome suggests as dishonesty.
(c) He says he'll never love basketball like Jerome does.
(d) He says he can beat Jerome without any fancy stuff.

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

9. Who wins the anonymous contest Miss Pimton sets up?
(a) Mollie and Anne.
(b) Bix and Jerome.
(c) It's a three-way tie.
(d) It's a two-way tie.

10. 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.

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

12. 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 two boys are twirling knives.
(d) The dog is growling.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jerome unable to restrain after a few minutes of hiding in the dark?

2. What does Bix say everyone is doing?

3. What does Jerome hear as he is approaching the court?

4. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?

5. What does Jerome say Bix needs to add to his game?

(see the answer keys)

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