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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Broome go home with in the section "Like This"?
(a) Jon.
(b) Allen.
(c) Jason.
(d) Henry.

3. What does Broome's boyfriend say he does not want to talk about when Broome asks him in "The Key"?
(a) What he does for a living.
(b) What sports teams he likes.
(c) What languages he speaks.
(d) Where he is from.

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

5. Who is smitten with Broome because he thinks Broome plays basketball?
(a) Bertrand.
(b) Randy.
(c) Finklestein.
(d) Henderson.

6. Why does Broome get to stay up so late in "A House is Not a Home"?
(a) His mother lets him watch Saturday Night Live.
(b) He has to work.
(c) He is studying.
(d) He is cooking for his parents.

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

8. What is a major characteristic Broome's mother recalls about her own father?
(a) His great sense of humor.
(b) His kindness.
(c) His generosity.
(d) His stinginess.

9. What does Broome think cut his father off from everything good in his father's life?
(a) His need to be a "man."
(b) His drug addiction.
(c) His not being able to read.
(d) His mental illness.

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

11. Where does Broome's new boyfriend ask him to meet him for a date outside in "The Key"?
(a) Squirrel Hill.
(b) The East Quarter.
(c) Market Street.
(d) The Bog.

12. What sport does Broome recall his father playing often in Part III?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Lacrosse.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Tennis.

13. Who does Tuan's father repeatedly talk to on the phone in Part III?
(a) His own mother.
(b) Tuan's mother.
(c) His own father.
(d) Tuan's sister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Broome's mother's family urge her to get married in "Let the Church Say 'Amen'"?

2. What does Broome do in a desperate attempt to contact the man he likes in the end of "Look Left, Look Right"?

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

4. Where do the lovers from the bus in Part III get off the bus?

5. What does the door person at the new bar Broome goes to in Part III ask him at the door?

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