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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 do the boys trying out for the basketball team already have?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Places on the team.
(c) The coach's approval.
(d) Uniforms.

2. What class does Jerome decide to drop in order to change to the suggested class?
(a) French.
(b) Economics.
(c) Communications.
(d) History.

3. What is the effect of the person going with Jerome?
(a) Jerome sees his father as a real person.
(b) It ruins his secret place for a while.
(c) Jerome sees his brother as a real person.
(d) Jerome does not see Bix as a white boy.

4. Who does the man with whom Jerome say he is?
(a) The owner of the Seven-Up plant.
(b) The main detective in the local precinct.
(c) The owner of the ball field.
(d) The baseball coach at the white high school.

5. To what does the phrase "spin light" pertain?
(a) A video game Bix loves.
(b) Playing shortstop.
(c) Playing pitcher.
(d) Playing soccer goalie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Jerome's mother focus concerning other people?

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

3. Where does Jerome spend most of his summers?

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

5. About what does Jerome's Communications teacher lecture Jerome?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is one thing Jerome quickly learns at Chestnut school?

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

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

6. How does Jerome describe his brother, Maurice?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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