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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (A House is Not a Home - The Initiation of Tuan, Pages 149 - 196).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Broome promise himself he will never be to his mother?
(a) A disappoinment.
(b) A friend.
(c) A crutch.
(d) A sounding board.

2. What does Broome think about love in relation to Black women in Part III?
(a) For Black women, love is often hard to find.
(b) They often wish to have had closer, more loving relationships with their siblings.
(c) Love comes easily in regard to their children.
(d) They are universally loved.

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

4. Why do Broome's roommates in "The Rent" ask him for a meeting?
(a) They confront him about lying about his name.
(b) They confront him about being gay.
(c) They confront him about missing rent payments.
(d) They confront him about his cooking habits.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Broome have to sneak in to the school movie in the section "Bee"?

2. What does Broome really like about having a girlfriend?

3. What is wrong with the apartment of the man Broome goes home with in Part III?

4. What term does Broome's mother use to refer to the house her father gave her and her husband to live in?

5. What does Broome's father once do in order to avoid having Broome's mother see him in the house?

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