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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 kind of shoes does Broome tell his prospective partner for the night he is wearing in the section "Like This"?
(a) Skechers.
(b) Windroms.
(c) Florsheim.
(d) Nike.

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

3. Who asks Broome point-blank in school if he is a "faggot"?
(a) Will.
(b) Glenn.
(c) His brother.
(d) Corey.

4. What did Broome's mother's mother work at during her childhood?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Cleaning for white people.
(c) Legal clerking.
(d) Landscaping.

5. Why does Broome's mother return back to the city not long after moving there after high school?
(a) She wants to go to college in the city she grew up in.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is sick.
(d) She is broke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Broome's father not like his mother doing 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 is one major issue Broome's father lies to his mother about early in their marriage?

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

5. Where does Broome's mother move right after graduating from high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Look Left, Look Right," why is Broome looking to make fast money?

5. What does Broome notice Tuan's father doing when Tuan starts to cry?

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

7. In "The Key," what question do prospective partners often ask Broome?

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

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

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

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