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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 question does Jerome ask Bix that Bix challenges?
(a) If Bix ever thinks of Jerome's skin color.
(b) If Bix knows his real dad.
(c) If Bix wants to try out for the basketball team.
(d) If they are best friends.

2. What does Jerome's mother say she wants to do before Jerome goes with Bix to the hospital?
(a) Talk to Bix's stepfather.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Meet Bix's mother.
(d) Meet Bix.

3. What was Bix's mother's response to Bix saying he did not love her?
(a) She says she does not love Bix.
(b) She laughs.
(c) Attempted suicide.
(d) She slaps him.

4. What makes Jerome nervous as he is headed towards his favorite court?
(a) He does not know if those drug dealers he saw before will be there.
(b) He is afraid of encountering some KKK members.
(c) He is afraid of losing his way in the dark.
(d) The path is dark.

5. What bet is wagered in this section?
(a) Jerome's ball against one of the other boy's knives.
(b) Jerome's ball against a spot in the home economics class.
(c) Jerome's ball against Bix's glove.
(d) Jerome's ball against the crewman's lantern.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is it before Jerome sees Bix again after the disagreement about moves on the court?

2. What does Jerome realize one night when he is practicing?

3. What does Bix start incorporating into his game?

4. For what is Bobo in line?

5. What is Bix's stepfather doing as Jerome leaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Jerome win a lantern?

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

8. How does Bix seem in the Home Economics class?

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

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

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