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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 ask the counselor about the boy she calls "poor thing"?
(a) If he is new to the school.
(b) If he has a mother.
(c) If he is black.
(d) If he is in the same home situation as Jerome.

2. Why does Jerome cut off a pair of his pants?
(a) To protest treatment from a teacher.
(b) To make some of the white kids laugh.
(c) Because of the heat in the classroom.
(d) To try out for the basketball team.

3. Of what does Jerome's mother assure him concerning her anger?
(a) She will get over it.
(b) She needs to feel the anger but still loves him.
(c) It is not about anything Jerome has done.
(d) She is working on getting rid of her anger.

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

5. How long has Jerome known Bix before Bix runs away?
(a) Since they were five.
(b) Since they were babies.
(c) The three years of high school.
(d) About a year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Jerome mention while writing about playing basketball?

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

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

4. Where will Jerome start attending school?

5. How does Jerome characterize Mr. Eggelestobbs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Jerome's momma point out to him one day and how does he react?

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

5. What does Jerome say about making friends?

6. How does Jerome describe his momma?

7. What is the traditional game that Jerome discusses?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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