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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 yell to who is watching him?
(a) He challenges him to a one-on-one match.
(b) He asks them where they live.
(c) He tells Bix to leave him alone.
(d) Scat.

2. What does Jerome pretend as he's hiding in the shadows?
(a) To be a detective.
(b) To be a high school basketball recruiter.
(c) To be a pro basketball player.
(d) To be an alien from Saturn.

3. What does Bix do the next week at school?
(a) He is boisterous and witty.
(b) He is absent from school that week.
(c) He is surly.
(d) He speaks to no one.

4. Where has Jerome seen his partner before?
(a) At church.
(b) In the principal's office.
(c) At the hospital when Jerome is visiting his mother.
(d) At the ball field.

5. What is bounceball?
(a) A game elementary children play with a soccer ball.
(b) What Bix calls basketball.
(c) A game elementary children play with a hoop that is only four feet off the ground.
(d) A pick-up basketball game where you must bounce the ball once for every step you take.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bix's stepfather agree to do though he is clearly tired?

2. Of what does Bix accuse Jerome?

3. What does Jerome's mother encourage all three of her sons to do?

4. What does Bix call what he does with the lantern?

5. Where is the new court where Jerome practices?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jerome win a lantern?

2. Who wins the best pie contest and what are the girls' reactions?

3. What is Jerome relating to his momma when he starts crying and what does his momma want her sons to do?

4. What does Miss Pimton teach to make in the next class and what is Jerome's reaction?

5. What is Jerome surprised to see when he arrives at the basketball court?

6. How do Bix and Jerome deepen their friendship?

7. What does Jerome look forward to in his Home Economics class, and what surprises him when he arrives there?

8. Where does Jerome find a new place to practice basketball?

9. What does Jerome tell his momma about Bix and what is her response?

10. How does Jerome's new lantern help him with his basketball practice?

(see the answer keys)

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