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

2. What does Broome say no one can escape in "This Gay Life"?
(a) The ravages of age.
(b) The scars of one's family.
(c) Being abandoned by friends.
(d) Fate.

3. What does Broome promise himself he will never be to his mother?
(a) A friend.
(b) A crutch.
(c) A sounding board.
(d) A disappoinment.

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

5. Why does Broome get to stay up so late in "A House is Not a Home"?
(a) His mother lets him watch Saturday Night Live.
(b) He is cooking for his parents.
(c) He has to work.
(d) He is studying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tuan do immediately when his father asks him to stop crying in Part III?

2. What did Broome's mother always want to be?

3. Why is Broome's mother disappointed with the singer she hears on television in Part IV?

4. What does Broome's father do to Broome's mother when he catches her having an affair?

5. Why does Broome leave his encounter early with the man he goes home with in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Broome think he has done with Black women throughout his life?

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

7. What does Broome think about the process of aging?

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

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

10. What huge lie does Broome's father, Junior, tell his mother?

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