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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (The Initiation of Tuan - The Initiation of Tuan, Pages 102 - 146).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the boy Broome sees on the bus in Part I traveling with?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

2. Who is Broome's good platonic friend in "Sandalwood"?
(a) Henry.
(b) Elwood.
(c) Michael.
(d) Jon.

3. What does Broome do in school to try to gain friends?
(a) Do people's homework for them.
(b) Steal.
(c) Give food away.
(d) Dance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Broome write that he has laid his problems too often at the feet of?

2. In Part II, what does Broome say he learned as a boy detracted from his Blackness?

3. What does Broome prefer to drink at bars that seems to turn some people off?

4. What is the name of the town Broome largely grew up in?

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

(see the answer key)

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