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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 does Jerome eventually recover?
(a) His sense of privacy.
(b) His belief in his father's wisdom.
(c) His belief in Bix's goodness.
(d) His sense of honor.

2. Who has to sign Jerome's drop form?
(a) Jerome's French teacher.
(b) The basketball coach.
(c) The principal.
(d) Mr. Egglestobs.

3. Who is the first person to notice Jerome's behavior?
(a) Bix.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

4. What happens when Bix gets angry?
(a) He goes off by himself.
(b) He takes a run.
(c) He cries.
(d) He flushes with color.

5. About what is Jerome angry?
(a) The way Bix is talked about in church.
(b) That Bix's mother deserted him.
(c) That Bix does not tell Jerome where Bix is.
(d) That Bix's stepfather lies about Bix.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes with Jerome one day to play basketball?

2. What does the person do who shows up in the middle of the game?

3. Who calls Jerome in to talk with him?

4. What happens to Jerome's mother?

5. What does the person notice about Jerome's behavior?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the school counselor suggest to help Jerome with his new responsibilities at home and what do the two finally agree for Jerome to do?

5. How does Jerome describe his brother, Maurice?

6. Who shows up to cheer for Bix, and what are Jerome's observations about her and Bix's reaction to her?

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

8. What is hidden in a grove of trees and what sometimes watches Jerome there?

9. Who does the narrator, Jerome, introduce and what does he say about where the young man is?

10. Describe Braxton Rivers' parents.

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