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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. Who sponsors the white team that traditionally visits a black team at the beginning of the season?
(a) Westinghouse.
(b) Dr. Pepper.
(c) Seven-Up.
(d) Coca-Cola.

2. What could Jerome and everyone else in the stands see about one of the spectators?
(a) The person is very wealthy.
(b) The person is blind.
(c) Something was going on other than just cheering.
(d) The person knows nothing about baseball.

3. Who else is scheduled to be in Jerome's new class?
(a) One of the basketball players who taunted Jerome.
(b) One of the basketball players who wanted Jerome to play on the team.
(c) Braxton Rivers.
(d) Maurice.

4. Who is Jerome's unseen opponent?
(a) Maurice.
(b) His father.
(c) Himself.
(d) Bix.

5. What does one of the white players say after the pick up game?
(a) That Jerome could help them win the state championship.
(b) That the coach is a racist pig.
(c) That Jerome is uppity for thinking of trying out for the team.
(d) That Jerome is the best basketball player there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason it is appropriate for Jerome to write about Bix?

2. For what class is Jerome late?

3. What does Jerome's mother ask him one day?

4. What does the counselor tell Jerome about his new class?

5. What is one thing about Bix Rivers to which Jerome refers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jerome doing the night he meets Bix?

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

3. What does Jerome say about the white sports league versus the black one?

4. How is Jerome's attention forced away from his attempt to make friends?

5. Who accompanies Jerome to the basketball court one day and how does Jerome feel about that?

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

7. How do Miss Pimton and the girls in Jerome's new class react to his arrival in the classroom and who is assigned to be his partner?

8. What is the traditional game that Jerome discusses?

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

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

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