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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 ask the Home Economics teacher?
(a) If they can make peach pie instead of cherry pie.
(b) Why they are making fake food?
(c) If they can make chocolate cake instead.
(d) Why they are making desserts when they haven't made a main course.

2. Why can Jerome use his secluded basketball court now?
(a) His brother is going with him in the family car and using the headlights for Jerome to play.
(b) It is summer and the days are longer so there's light longer.
(c) The city has installed lights on the court.
(d) The lantern gives him light to play and to walk home.

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

4. What does Jerome's mother say to Bix privately?
(a) To stop thinking the world is against him.
(b) To be kind to Bix's mother.
(c) Jerome does not know.
(d) To be kind to Jerome who is still an innocent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerome offer for Bix to do?

2. What is counting quietly as Jerome approaches the basketball court?

3. What does Jerome realize as a result of Bix challenging him?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Bix and Jerome deepen their friendship?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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