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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. When does Bix say he will visit his mother?
(a) He does not say.
(b) The following Friday.
(c) The next day.
(d) In another month.

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

3. What does Jerome try to convince Bix Jerome was doing?
(a) Trying to decide if he wanted to come onto the court.
(b) Waiting to see if any other white guys were going to arrive.
(c) Studying over Bix's basketball moves.
(d) Joking.

4. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?
(a) He's embarrassed that he needs his mother's advice.
(b) He's sad that Bix seems to not like him that much.
(c) He realizes he's angry with Bix.
(d) He cries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Pimton say about what they are going to make?

2. What does Jerome's mother say to Bix privately?

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

4. What is Jerome prepared to do the next time he goes to his Home Economics class?

5. What does Jerome's momma realize that Jerome's been neglecting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. About what does Bix challenge Jerome?

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

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

5. How does Jerome discover who is at "his" court one night?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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