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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Introduction - The Red Caboose, XI - 51).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Broome do in school to try to gain friends?
(a) Give food away.
(b) Steal.
(c) Dance.
(d) Do people's homework for them.

2. What does Broome's friend do when he fails at the public display the friend tries to set up for Broome in Part I?
(a) Cuts him with a knife.
(b) Tries to run over him with the car.
(c) Burns him with a cigarette.
(d) Beats him up.

3. What does the young boy on the bus sing over and over in Part I?
(a) One Night Only.
(b) A popular Broadway show tune.
(c) The alphabet song.
(d) A song he makes up on the spot.

4. Why does Broome's friend try to force him to do something humiliating in front of other boys in Part I?
(a) To try to impress the teachers.
(b) To try to make Broome leave town.
(c) To prove Broome's masculinity to the group.
(d) To get money for himself.

5. What does Broome remember his own father often doing to him in childhood that hurt Broome?
(a) Taking him to work with him.
(b) Denying him food.
(c) Tearing his books up.
(d) Beating him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Broome's father get laid off from in Part I?

2. Whose poem does Broome begin his book with?

3. How does Broome get to the nightclub he wants to go to with his friends?

4. What happens when it is time to come home from the night club in Part I for Broome?

5. Which teacher does Broome have the most troubled relationship with?

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