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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. About what does Jerome taunt Bix?
(a) Bix's suggesting to Jerome the same thing about baseball.
(b) Bix's mother's behavior at a baseball game.
(c) Bix's behavior in Home Economics class.
(d) Bix's statement to some boys at school.

2. Of what does Bix accuse Jerome?
(a) Blinding him with the light so he could not retaliate.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Lying.
(d) Taking advantage of Bix's inexperience.

3. What does Bix ask of Jerome?
(a) To run away with him.
(b) To be able to hold the lantern.
(c) To talk to Bix's stepfather.
(d) To play baseball on Bix's team.

4. What is Bix's challenge about?
(a) Jerome needing to pin down parentage.
(b) Jerome's need to define everything in words.
(c) Jerome being more obsessed about skin color than Bix.
(d) Jerome not getting on the team the year before.

5. What does Bix call what he does with the lantern?
(a) Light circle.
(b) Gigging.
(c) Whirly light.
(d) Spin Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?

2. How is Jerome's mother when she gets home from the hospital?

3. What does Bix challenge his stepfather to do?

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

5. What is Bix doing in the corner of the Home Economics room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jerome and Bix tease each other after Jerome shines his lantern on Bix?

2. How does Jerome feel going down the path to the court at night and what exacerbates those feelings?

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

4. How long of a break is there when Jerome and Bix do not see each other, and what does Jerome do as far as practicing basketball in the meantime?

5. What does Bix do in the Home Economics class that is disturbing?

6. Who is watching Jerome one day as he is practicing and what does Jerome do?

7. How do Bix and Jerome deepen their friendship?

8. Why does Bix challenge his stepfather to a one-on-one game and who is to referee the game?

9. How is Jerome's Home Economics class helping him and what are his brothers' reactions?

10. What does Bix's stepfather say about Bix's relationship to Bix's mother?

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