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

2. In "Gravel," what does a white driver assume Broome and Annette are doing to their white friends?
(a) Treating them to dinner.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Robbing them.
(d) Trying to convert them to their religion.

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

4. What is unique about Betrand?
(a) He speaks four languages.
(b) He is a professional musician.
(c) He is an Olympian.
(d) He has a prosthetic leg.

5. What phrase does Broome's father keep repeating to Broome's mother when he finds out about her affair?
(a) You are a slut.
(b) You're dead.
(c) I caught you.
(d) I will kill you.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Broome remember not liking to play with at all when he was a child?

3. Where does Broome learn everything he every learned about white people?

4. What does Broome think about what his mother did every time he wore the item he most desperately wanted in "Carnival"?

5. What does Broome's mother say when Broome asks for the item he wants in "Carnival"?

(see the answer key)

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