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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (The Initiation of Tuan - Sandalwood, Pages 50 - 101).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Broome afford college tuition?
(a) His grandmother pays for it.
(b) His father leaves him money.
(c) He wins the lottery.
(d) His mother co-signs a loan for him.

2. What are the two things in life that Broome says can tell you who you really are?
(a) Taxes and death.
(b) Love and death.
(c) Hazing and books.
(d) War and public sex.

3. When is the first gay pride parade Broome attends?
(a) 1994.
(b) 2010.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2000.

4. In Part II, what does Broome say he learned as a boy detracted from his Blackness?
(a) His bookishness.
(b) His shyness.
(c) His gayness.
(d) His accent.

5. What stands today where Broome's childhood home used to be?
(a) A convenience store.
(b) A church.
(c) A new house.
(d) It is a barren spot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What painful childhood memory does Broome recall about a girl in a diner in Part II?

2. What happens to Broome's house in "Parental Alienation101"?

3. What does the young boy on the bus sing over and over in Part I?

4. What sport does Broome's brother play and is skilled at?

5. Why do Broome's roommates in "The Rent" ask him for a meeting?

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