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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Carnival - Tabula Rasa, Pages 197 - 250).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Broome learn everything he every learned about white people?
(a) At college.
(b) From television.
(c) From school.
(d) From his mother.

2. What seems limitless for Broome at the end of the book?
(a) His capacity for love.
(b) The possibilities in his life.
(c) The ways in which people can disappoint you.
(d) His need to ask for forgiveness.

3. What did Broome's mother's mother work at during her childhood?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Legal clerking.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Cleaning for white people.

4. What does Broome's mother remember her own mother doing nearly every day?
(a) Getting drunk.
(b) Washing the car.
(c) Making food for neighbors.
(d) Singing.

5. Whose poem does Broome begin his book with?
(a) Gwendolyn Brooks's.
(b) James Joyce's.
(c) bel hooks's.
(d) Paul Henry's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Broome tell Tuan in a letter it would be a mistake for him to do?

2. Where is Broome's town's hottest dance spot for youth?

3. Why does Broome get to stay up so late in "A House is Not a Home"?

4. Where do a lot of white people get on the bus in Part III that Broome notices?

5. Who does Broome go home with in the section "Like This"?

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