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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another way Jerome uses to find friends?
(a) How the person refers to their "colored" help.
(b) If the person is into basketball.
(c) How the person talks about civil rights.
(d) How the person speaks French.

2. About what does the visitor to Jerome's home assure Jerome?
(a) The quality of the education Jerome can expect at his new school.
(b) The fact that Jerome can be a wonderful ambassador for blacks.
(c) The fact that Jerome's fellow students in his former school are very proud of him.
(d) The fact that Jerome can always return to his former school.

3. What is one way Jerome decides to make overtures of friendship to a white student?
(a) Seeing who nods at him.
(b) Listening to their book reports.
(c) Seeing who seems to be relaxed around him.
(d) Seeing who will laugh at his jokes.

4. Who calls Jerome in to talk with him?
(a) The school counselor.
(b) The school nurse.
(c) The basketball coach.
(d) The principal.

5. What is hidden in a grove of trees?
(a) A gang hideout.
(b) A hangout for Jerome and his friends.
(c) A basketball court.
(d) A skeleton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new laws are in effect that will affect Jerome?

2. What position does Bix play on the baseball team?

3. Who are some people Jerome's brother continually analyzes?

4. With whom does Jerome speak after the ball game?

5. To what does the phrase "spin light" pertain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Braxton Rivers' parents.

2. Describe Jerome's attempt to be accepted on the basketball team.

3. What does Jerome say about the situation about attending Chestnut Street Junior High School, and how does his momma react?

4. What does Jerome say about his French and Communications classes?

5. What does Jerome say about regaining his sense of privacy and how he is mistaken?

6. Who is going to be the other boy in Jerome's Home Economics class and what does the school counselor say about him?

7. What new responsibilities does Jerome assume at home and who talks to Jerome about this?

8. How is the black team's playing and what interferes with that?

9. What does the driver of the grill truck say to Jerome?

10. What does Jerome's former principal say when he visits Jerome and his momma?

(see the answer keys)

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