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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 of Bix's does Jerome have?
(a) Bix's best baseball cleats.
(b) Bix's notebook.
(c) Bix's poetry.
(d) Bix's assurances.
2. Who is coaching the team that Jerome is watching the night he meets Bix?
(a) Mr. Steller.
(b) Jerome's father.
(c) Bix's father.
(d) Jerome's brother.
3. What does the counselor tell Jerome about his new class?
(a) He will not be the only boy in the class.
(b) He will have to get his mother's permission to take the class.
(c) He will have to stay after school to catch up for a week.
(d) He will be the only boy in the class.
4. What does the person notice about Jerome's behavior?
(a) Jerome is very agitated.
(b) Jerome is lethargic.
(c) Jerome is depressed.
(d) Jerome is behaving strangely.
5. What does Jerome's mother ask him one day?
(a) If he is sad.
(b) Why he is talking to himself.
(c) If he wants to be something when he grows up.
(d) If he is angry at the world.
Short Answer Questions
1. What new laws are in effect that will affect Jerome?
2. Where is it possible to play basketball both summer and winter?
3. What do the younger siblings of some of the ball players do?
4. Where is Bix's mother?
5. What is one thing about Bix Rivers to which Jerome refers?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who shows up to cheer for Bix, and what are Jerome's observations about her and Bix's reaction to her?
2. How does Jerome describe his brother, Maurice?
3. Who is going to be the other boy in Jerome's Home Economics class and what does the school counselor say about him?
4. What is hidden in a grove of trees and what sometimes watches Jerome there?
5. How is the black team's playing and what interferes with that?
6. What new responsibilities does Jerome assume at home and who talks to Jerome about this?
7. What does Jerome say about regaining his sense of privacy and how he is mistaken?
8. What does Jerome say about the situation about attending Chestnut Street Junior High School, and how does his momma react?
9. What does Jerome say about the white sports league versus the black one?
10. What other things does Jerome write about this secret court?
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