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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. How does Jerome make Bix laugh?
(a) Making alien noises.
(b) Showing him an underhanded ball throw.
(c) Jerome promises to bring Spin Light to the basketball court.
(d) Jerome dictates the basketball game as if it were a baseball game.

2. What do Jerome's brothers think of his cooking at home?
(a) They do not say much.
(b) They think he cooks better than their mother.
(c) They like what he is making.
(d) They do not believe home economics class is helping him as a cook.

3. What does Jerome's mother want Jerome to do with what he wins?
(a) Return it.
(b) She does not care.
(c) Let everyone in the family use it.
(d) Pawn it for food for the family.

4. What does Bix say everyone is doing?
(a) Telling lies.
(b) Laughing at him.
(c) Poisoning the pies.
(d) Talking about him.

5. What does Jerome worry about for his mother?
(a) Her thinking may have been damaged.
(b) She may want to take over care of the house too soon.
(c) She may have some emotional lapses.
(d) She may not be able to help him with his problems at school anymore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome ask the Home Economics teacher?

2. What does Jerome hear as he is approaching the court?

3. What does Jerome offer for Bix to do?

4. What does Jerome pretend as he's hiding in the shadows?

5. Who wins the anonymous contest Miss Pimton sets up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Jerome's lantern come to be called Spin Light?

6. About what does Bix challenge Jerome?

7. 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?

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

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

10. What makes Jerome realize Bix is in real trouble?

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