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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Broome say no one can escape in "This Gay Life"?
(a) Being abandoned by friends.
(b) The ravages of age.
(c) The scars of one's family.
(d) Fate.

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

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

4. What does Broome prefer to drink at bars that seems to turn some people off?
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Gin and tonics.
(d) Jack Daniel's.

5. Who does Broome write that he has laid his problems too often at the feet of?
(a) Black women.
(b) His sister.
(c) His brother.
(d) His best friends.

6. How does Broome remember the Black boys at school treating him?
(a) They only liked him for how well he played sports.
(b) They ignored him.
(c) They liked him and often invited him out.
(d) They hated him.

7. 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) Love comes easily in regard to their children.
(c) They often wish to have had closer, more loving relationships with their siblings.
(d) They are universally loved.

8. Who narrates the section "Let the church Say 'Amen'"?
(a) Broome's father.
(b) Broome's cousin.
(c) Broome's mother.
(d) Broome's brother.

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

10. Early in Part IV, who does Tuan talk to on the phone on the bus?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sibling.
(d) His cousin.

11. 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 live on so little money?
(c) How can Broome be so angry like this?
(d) How can Broome be "like this?"

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

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

14. Why does Broome leave his encounter early with the man he goes home with in Part III?
(a) The man tells Broome to leave.
(b) The man passes out.
(c) The man is too rough and seems unstable.
(d) The man becomes violent and attacks Broome with a knife.

15. Where does Broome's mother grow up as a child?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Broome frequent The Holiday?

2. Which friends did Broome's mother move with after graduating from high school?

3. What kind of shoes does Broome tell his prospective partner for the night he is wearing in the section "Like This"?

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

5. What is one reason Broome wants to buy drugs so badly in "Look Left, Look Right"?

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