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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Broome go with his new boyfriend for dinner after his humiliating experience in "The Key"?

2. What was The Holiday situated between in the section "This Gay Life"?

3. Who does Broome's mother invite over to the house in "A House is Not a Home"?

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

5. Who does Tuan try to engage early in Part III who is having none of it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Broome's mother's and the other women's reaction to seeing Luther Vandross on television?

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

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

5. In "Like This," what happens when Broome goes to Pressley's for the first time?

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

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

8. What television event does Broome's mother get very excited about in "A House is not a Home" ?

9. Why does Broome lie about playing basketball to his partner in "The Key"?

10. What happens when Broome goes home with Jason in "Like This"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Broome feel an immediate link between Tuan, a young Black boy who is a stranger on a bus, and his own childhood? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

In Part II, what does the behavior of Broome's roommates at college reveal to him about his hopes for escaping bias and stress related to his being gay by leaving his small Ohio hometown? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusion.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Broome seem to identify so closely with Tuan, the young Black boy on his bus journey who he revisits throughout the memoir? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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