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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens when it is time to come home from the night club in Part I for Broome?
(a) He breaks his leg.
(b) None of his friends' parents want to give him a ride.
(c) His friend accuses him of stealing his money.
(d) He almost gets hit by a car.

4. How does Broome afford college tuition?
(a) His mother co-signs a loan for him.
(b) He wins the lottery.
(c) His grandmother pays for it.
(d) His father leaves him money.

5. Where is Broome's town's hottest dance spot for youth?
(a) The Blurry Bell.
(b) The Red Caboose.
(c) The Club.
(d) The Holder Place.

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

7. Why does Broome have to sneak in to the school movie in the section "Bee"?
(a) He is afraid of a bully in the audience.
(b) He wants to act like he does not really want to see the movie.
(c) He does not have enough money for the movie.
(d) He knows his parents will not approve of the movie.

8. What does Broome's father often do after he splits from Broome's mother?
(a) Come to their house to steal food.
(b) Take a lot of drugs.
(c) Read books about salvation.
(d) Go to church.

9. In Part II, why does Broome think his mother separates from his father?
(a) So she can get another job.
(b) So she can move out of state.
(c) To save both herself and Broome.
(d) To get remarried.

10. Who is Broome's childhood "friend" in Part I that Broome's father likes?
(a) James.
(b) Henry.
(c) Corey.
(d) Jason.

11. What painful childhood memory does Broome recall about a girl in a diner in Part II?
(a) That a girl in a diner threw up on him.
(b) That a girl in a diner threw her food at him.
(c) That a girl in a diner called him gay.
(d) That a girl in a diner called him ugly to his face.

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

13. When is the first gay pride parade Broome attends?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2010.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1992.

14. What does the young boy's father on the bus tell him to stop doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Talking to strangers.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Crying.

15. What song does Broome's mother sing to try to cheer him up in Part II?
(a) Fever.
(b) Like a Rolling Stone.
(c) Spirit in the Sky.
(d) This Little Light of Mine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Broome imagine about Tuan in Part II?

2. Who does Broome meet at his first pride parade who becomes a long-term friend?

3. Who is Michael attracted to in "Sandalwood"?

4. What is the name of the town Broome largely grew up in?

5. What is Brian good at in the section "Bee"?

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