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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 only liked him for how well he played sports.
(d) They generally ignored him.

2. When did Broome frequent The Holiday?
(a) The eighties.
(b) The nineties.
(c) The seventies.
(d) The early 2000s.

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

4. What word does the man Broome goes home with chant to himself repeatedly before Broome leaves in "Like This"?
(a) Terror.
(b) Faggot.
(c) Queer.
(d) Help.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport does Broome recall his father playing often in Part III?

2. Who is smitten with Broome because he thinks Broome plays basketball?

3. What do most people call Broome's father at the time his parents marry?

4. How does Broome's mother feel when she is at home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What huge lie does Broome's father, Junior, tell his mother?

2. What humiliating process does Broome willingly endure in "Look Left, Look Right"?

3. What does Broome think he has done with Black women throughout his life?

4. What television event does Broome's mother get very excited about in "A House is not a Home" ?

5. Why does Broome lie about playing basketball to his partner in "The Key"?

6. What happens when Broome goes home with Jason in "Like This"?

7. Who does a woman on the bus in "The Initiation of Tuan" remind Broome of and why (137-8)?

8. In "Like This," what happens when Broome goes to Pressley's for the first time?

9. What does Broome's mother do that Broome's father beats her badly over?

10. What did Broome think watching his father play catch with him as a child?

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