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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Broome's mother grow up as a child?
(a) Texas.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Georgia.

2. Early in Part IV, who does Tuan talk to on the phone on the bus?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His sibling.

3. How does Broome remember the Black boys at school treating him?
(a) They liked him and often invited him out.
(b) They hated him.
(c) They only liked him for how well he played sports.
(d) They ignored him.

4. What does Tuan do immediately when his father asks him to stop crying in Part III?
(a) Throws a tantrum.
(b) Cries harder.
(c) Immediately stops crying.
(d) Jumps off the bus.

5. What basketball reference does Broome make to his new boyfriend in "The Key"?
(a) To a type of shoes he says he likes.
(b) To an area of the court called the key.
(c) To a type of shot he says he likes.
(d) To a famous player.

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

7. What does Broome think about love in relation to Black women in Part III?
(a) For Black women, love is often hard to find.
(b) Love comes easily in regard to their children.
(c) They often wish to have had closer, more loving relationships with their siblings.
(d) They are universally loved.

8. Who was the first man Broome's mother became involved with after moving to the big city after high school?
(a) Jon Henderson.
(b) William Davis.
(c) Jermone Karnis.
(d) Michael Smith.

9. What does Broome's new boyfriend basically make him do at the end of "The Key" that Broome dreads?
(a) Sing for him.
(b) Play basketball in front of him.
(c) Dance.
(d) Cook.

10. Why is Broome so upset at what his mother says about the singer she once liked in Part IV?
(a) She calls him a "sissy" very disdainfully, and Broome knows some people think he is a sissy, too.
(b) She says the singer reminds her of Broome.
(c) She says she wants to divorce Broome's father because of the singer.
(d) She says Broome should be a singer too.

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

12. Who does Tuan's father repeatedly talk to on the phone in Part III?
(a) His own father.
(b) Tuan's mother.
(c) His own mother.
(d) Tuan's sister.

13. How does Broome's mother feel when she is at home?
(a) Not as if she is at home.
(b) As if she is a slave.
(c) Very comfortable and safe.
(d) Afraid.

14. What does Broome remember his mother telling him about the dangers of a Black parent showing affection to a child in the Jim Crow south?
(a) It was looked down upon.
(b) It signalled weakness to white people.
(c) It was never, ever done.
(d) It was only done by wealthier Black people.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Broome do in a desperate attempt to contact the man he likes in the end of "Look Left, Look Right"?

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

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 move right after graduating from high school?

5. What word does the man Broome goes home with chant to himself repeatedly before Broome leaves in "Like This"?

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