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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 offer for Bix to do?
(a) Meet Jerome there every night.
(b) Go home with Jerome for dinner.
(c) Start back in the home economics class.
(d) Teach Jerome baseball.

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

3. Who ensures that the bet is paid by the loser?
(a) Jerome's older brother.
(b) Some passengers.
(c) The guidance counselor.
(d) Bix.

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

5. What does Jerome take with him to his favorite basketball court?
(a) His dinner in a paper sack.
(b) His new lantern.
(c) A new basketball.
(d) A whistle to scare the dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bobo?

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

3. What is bounceball?

4. What does Jerome yell to who is watching him?

5. What is Bix's challenge about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jerome win a lantern?

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

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

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

6. Why does Bix get angry at Jerome?

7. How do Bix and Jerome deepen their friendship?

8. How does Bix make steps towards a friendship with Jerome?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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