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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. What does the door person at the new bar Broome goes to in Part III ask him at the door?
(a) Whether he is a stud or a fish.
(b) Whether he is really gay.
(c) Whether he has a girlfriend.
(d) Whether he has the fee to get in.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unique about Betrand?

2. Which aunt of Broome's mother helps Broome's mother help her?

3. What does Broome's new boyfriend basically make him do at the end of "The Key" that Broome dreads?

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

5. Why does Broome's mother return back to the city not long after moving there after high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Broome so upset at seeing his mother's reaction to Luther Vandross?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Broome think about the process of aging?

8. What does Broome's father do with his mother's book, and why?

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

10. In "The Key," what happens when Bertrand actually forces Broome to play basketball?

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