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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 pressure does Broome's new boyfriend say he knows exists for Broome in America?
(a) Pressure from homophobia.
(b) Pressure from politics.
(c) Pressure from poverty.
(d) Pressure from racism.

2. Which singer does Broome's mother love in Part IV?
(a) Bruce Springsteen.
(b) Luther Vandross.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) Sting.

3. What does Broome's boyfriend say he does not want to talk about when Broome asks him in "The Key"?
(a) Where he is from.
(b) What languages he speaks.
(c) What he does for a living.
(d) What sports teams he likes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Broome's mother use to refer to the house her father gave her and her husband to live in?

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

3. What does Broome say no one can escape in "This Gay Life"?

4. Which aunt of Broome's mother helps Broome's mother help her?

5. Who asks Broome point-blank in school if he is a "faggot"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "The Key," what happens when Bertrand actually forces Broome to play basketball?

3. What does Broome think eventually cut his own father off from everything good in his father's life?

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

5. Why did Broome's mother marry his father in the first place?

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

7. In "The Key," how does Broome remember his older brother treating him as a child?

8. Who does a woman on the bus in "The Initiation of Tuan" remind Broome of and why (137-8)?

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

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

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