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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 notice about Bix's clothes?
(a) They are immaculate and stiff.
(b) They are in the latest style.
(c) They are untidy.
(d) They do not match.

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

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

4. What does Jerome imagine while he is practicing by himself on the basketball court?
(a) A scout seeing him.
(b) Playing for the pros.
(c) Getting on the high school team.
(d) Playing against Bix.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Bix say he will visit his mother?

2. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?

3. What makes Jerome nervous as he is headed towards his favorite court?

4. Why does Jerome yell what he does to the person(s) watching him?

5. What does Jerome realize one night when he is practicing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Jerome feel going down the path to the court at night and what exacerbates those feelings?

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

6. Why does Bix challenge his stepfather to a one-on-one game and who is to referee the game?

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

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

9. How does Jerome's lantern come to be called Spin Light?

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

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