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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Last Part, Sections 25 and 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jerome's mother?
(a) She is falsely arrested for stealing from her employer.
(b) She sustains a serious head injury.
(c) She hurts her back.
(d) She is fired from her job because of Jerome going to a white school.

2. What is Jerome prepared to do the next time he goes to his Home Economics class?
(a) Prove he can cook better than the girls.
(b) Be asked to leave the class.
(c) Dislike the teacher.
(d) Meet his partner.

3. What is one way Jerome decides to make overtures of friendship to a white student?
(a) Seeing who nods at him.
(b) Listening to their book reports.
(c) Seeing who seems to be relaxed around him.
(d) Seeing who will laugh at his jokes.

4. What is one thing Jerome learns when he starts school that Fall?
(a) He will have to work much harder than the white students.
(b) There are good reasons why schools are segregated.
(c) In some ways, people at the white school aren't that much different from people at the black one.
(d) He will probably not be very popular.

5. What happens in Jerome's Home Economics class the next week?
(a) Bix does not attend and drops out completely.
(b) Jerome quits the class.
(c) Bix comes in and demands they make something real.
(d) Bix comes in and yells at the teacher and then sulks in the corner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jerome characterize his behavior that summer?

2. Who does Jerome say smiles politely when the person shows up?

3. Who accompanies Jerome most summer days?

4. What is one class Jerome mentions he enjoys?

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

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