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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (The Initiation of Tuan - Sandalwood, Pages 50 - 101).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Broome write that Black boys do not get to enjoy for long?
(a) Boyhood.
(b) Swimming.
(c) School.
(d) Having enough to eat.

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

3. What word does Broome miss in the spelling bee in the section "Bee"?
(a) Multiplier.
(b) Habitual.
(c) Foreign.
(d) Arbitrary.

4. In "Bee," how does Broome describe his relationship with his siblings?
(a) He is friends with his brother, but not his sister.
(b) He does not have any siblings.
(c) They are not friends any longer.
(d) They are great friends.

5. What actually happens to Broome's family after their house is destroyed?
(a) They live with his grandmother.
(b) They move back in with Broome's father.
(c) They briefly live with his aunt.
(d) They become homeless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Broome's favorite fish of the fish he got with his father?

2. What does a teacher paddle Broome for doing in "Bee"?

3. When is the first gay pride parade Broome attends?

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

5. Who is Broome's childhood "friend" in Part I that Broome's father likes?

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