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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through First Part, Sections 4 through 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person do who shows up in the middle of the game?
(a) Cheers for Maurice.
(b) Cheers for Bix.
(c) Picks a fight with some of the ball players.
(d) Arrests one of the spectators.

2. What is one reason it is appropriate for Jerome to write about Bix?
(a) Jerome loves drama.
(b) Jerome is now a preacher.
(c) Jerome loves the truth.
(d) Jerome is a writer.

3. What is Jerome's preferred sport?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Football.
(d) Basketball.

4. What is Bix's stepfather busy gathering?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Information about where Bix's mother could be.
(d) Testimony against his business partner.

5. Who is coaching the team that Jerome is watching the night he meets Bix?
(a) Mr. Steller.
(b) Jerome's brother.
(c) Jerome's father.
(d) Bix's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's name?

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

3. What tune does the horn of one of the trucks play?

4. How long has Jerome known Bix before Bix runs away?

5. What does Maurice go off to college to do?

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