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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (The Initiation of Tuan - The Initiation of Tuan, Pages 102 - 146).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the lovers from the bus in Part III get off the bus?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Highland.
(c) Ridgeland.
(d) Bessington.

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

3. How does Broome remember the white boys treating him at school as a child?
(a) They generally ignored him.
(b) They constantly ridiculed him.
(c) They invited him to parties.
(d) They only liked him for how well he played sports.

4. What does Broome's new boyfriend basically make him do at the end of "The Key" that Broome dreads?
(a) Play basketball in front of him.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing for him.
(d) Cook.

5. Who does Tuan try to engage early in Part III who is having none of it?
(a) A young girl around his age.
(b) Broome.
(c) An elderly lady on the bus.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stands today where Broome's childhood home used to be?

2. What does Broome's boyfriend say he does not want to talk about when Broome asks him in "The Key"?

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

4. What does the young boy on the bus sing over and over in Part I?

5. What sport does Broome recall his father playing often in Part III?

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