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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 buy one day at the Miracle Mart that goes missing a short while later?
(a) Candy.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) A lamp.
(d) A book for herself.

2. What does Broome prefer to drink at bars that seems to turn some people off?
(a) Beer.
(b) Gin and tonics.
(c) Wine.
(d) Jack Daniel's.

3. What does Broome's mother remember her own mother doing nearly every day?
(a) Making food for neighbors.
(b) Getting drunk.
(c) Washing the car.
(d) Singing.

4. What term does Broome's mother use to refer to the house her father gave her and her husband to live in?
(a) A shotgun house.
(b) A hidewaway.
(c) A rover house.
(d) A blinker house.

5. What does Broome's father not like his mother doing in "Let the Church Say 'Amen'"?
(a) Going to church.
(b) Working on her sewing.
(c) Going out to eat.
(d) Buying food.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was The Holiday situated between in the section "This Gay Life"?

3. How does Broome remember the white boys treating him at school as a child?

4. How is Broome humiliated in front of his new boyfriend in "The Key"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Broome's mother go to church throughout her adult life?

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