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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Broome's mother feel when she is at home?
(a) Very comfortable and safe.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Not as if she is at home.
(d) As if she is a slave.

2. What was The Holiday situated between in the section "This Gay Life"?
(a) Two car washes.
(b) Two college campuses.
(c) A laundromat and a video store.
(d) Two libraries.

3. What does the man Broome goes home with in "Like This" ask him right before he leaves?
(a) How can Broome style his hair like this?
(b) How can Broome be "like this?"
(c) How can Broome be so angry like this?
(d) How can Broome live on so little money?

4. What kind of shoes does Broome tell his prospective partner for the night he is wearing in the section "Like This"?
(a) Windroms.
(b) Nike.
(c) Florsheim.
(d) Skechers.

5. Which singer does Broome's mother love in Part IV?
(a) Michael Jackson.
(b) Bruce Springsteen.
(c) Luther Vandross.
(d) Sting.

6. What does Tuan do immediately when his father asks him to stop crying in Part III?
(a) Throws a tantrum.
(b) Immediately stops crying.
(c) Jumps off the bus.
(d) Cries harder.

7. In "Game Theory," what does Broome's girlfriend ask him to take off during sex?
(a) His glasses.
(b) His shirt.
(c) His socks.
(d) His boots.

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

9. Why does Broome's mother's family urge her to get married in "Let the Church Say 'Amen'"?
(a) She will be able to go back to school if she gets married.
(b) A good man wants to marry her.
(c) She can start her own business if she gets married.
(d) She is pregnant.

10. Where does Broome go for the first time early in Part II where he can tell he is not welcome?
(a) Pressley's.
(b) Barley's.
(c) The Rig.
(d) The Hotel.

11. What is wrong with the apartment of the man Broome goes home with in Part III?
(a) It smells like chemicals.
(b) The door does not open.
(c) It is not really the man's apartment.
(d) It is filthy.

12. Which aunt of Broome's mother helps Broome's mother help her?
(a) Aunt Mary Emma.
(b) Aunt Stella.
(c) Aunt Helen.
(d) Aunt Roberta.

13. What do most people call Broome's father at the time his parents marry?
(a) Henry.
(b) Low.
(c) Junior.
(d) Skip.

14. Where does Broome's mother move right after graduating from high school?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Dayton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Broome remember the Black boys at school treating him?

2. Who does Tuan's father repeatedly talk to on the phone in Part III?

3. When did Broome frequent The Holiday?

4. Who does Broome's mother invite over to the house in "A House is Not a Home"?

5. What does Broome promise himself he will never be to his mother?

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