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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 Broome's mother say she will know Broome will never do?
(a) Leave her.
(b) Become independent.
(c) Make her happy.
(d) Disappoint her.

2. What does Broome do in a desperate attempt to contact the man he likes in the end of "Look Left, Look Right"?
(a) Breaks into his apartment.
(b) Waits outside his work.
(c) Approaches him belligerently at a bar.
(d) Waits outside his sister's house.

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

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

5. 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 is too rough and seems unstable.
(c) The man passes out.
(d) The man becomes violent and attacks Broome with a knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tuan do immediately when his father asks him to stop crying in Part III?

2. When did Broome frequent The Holiday?

3. Where does Broome go for the first time early in Part II where he can tell he is not welcome?

4. Where does Broome's mother grow up as a child?

5. Which singer does Broome's mother love in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Game Theory," what does Broome like about having a girlfriend?

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

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

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

5. What does Broome do as a child that his mother is proud of?

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

7. What does Broome think eventually cut his own father off from everything good in his father's life?

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

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

10. What is Broome's mother's and the other women's reaction to seeing Luther Vandross on television?

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