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Paul Monette
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the courtier role best work on?
(a) Babies.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Adults.

2. What reality does Paul face the night he spends in New York with Cody?
(a) Paul will never love anyone as much.
(b) Cody always knew about Paul's feelings.
(c) Their friendship will never be the same.
(d) Cody and Natalie are engaged.

3. What is Paul's first impression of Bobby in the bassinet?
(a) He is lovely.
(b) He is crippled.
(c) He is nothing to fawn over.
(d) He is awkward.

4. How is Paul's spring break somewhat saved as his friends leave him for girls?
(a) He meets another American with whom he can talk poetry.
(b) He has a tryst with a Bahamian boy in secret.
(c) He meets a girl he gets along with.
(d) He ends up having fun at a party using his courtier role.

5. What does Paul's advisor think of him?
(a) Paul can use a role model.
(b) Paul is very smart.
(c) Paul has lots of potential.
(d) Paul needs to grow up.

6. What major event does Bobby go through around age ten?
(a) Knee surgery.
(b) An appendectomy.
(c) Bladder surgery.
(d) Hip surgery.

7. According to Paul, what keeps him invisible?
(a) Bobby and his father.
(b) Straight men who write history.
(c) The families in the neighborhood.
(d) Society.

8. What comfortable bonding opportunities does Paul have with his father?
(a) Watching sports.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Going fishing.
(d) Going to work with his father.

9. Why is it surprising Bobby makes it to high school and college?
(a) Bobby is a rebel during elementary school.
(b) Bobby is not very smart.
(c) Bobby is dyslexic.
(d) His classmates do not have levels above second grade.

10. How does Paul discover that homosexuality exists beyond his own world?
(a) Talking to Alex.
(b) "Tomorrow's Man."
(c) "Today's Man."
(d) Talking to Nana Lamb about California.

11. What theme is seen again as Paul holds a drunk Cody in his arms?
(a) Cody taking advantage of Paul's feelings for him.
(b) The courtier role.
(c) Unrequited love.
(d) The savior role.

12. What is Paul's reaction to the dirty jokes at school?
(a) He feels sinful just to hear them.
(b) He goes home to make up some of his own.
(c) He does not understand them.
(d) He loves them and tells them to Bobby.

13. What is Gus and Abbot's relationship with the Monette family?
(a) They are Bobby's doctors.
(b) They work at Cross Coal with Big Paul.
(c) Abbot has Spina bifida and Gus is his father. They are friends with the Monettes.
(d) They incessantly bully Bobby and Paul.

14. What does Raf mistake Paul for?
(a) An grown adult.
(b) A boy prostitute.
(c) A woman.
(d) A Dionysus.

15. What guidance is available to Big Paul and Jackie as they raise Bobby?
(a) Specialists.
(b) Counseling groups.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) A church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What opportunity does Paul see in Elihu?

2. What does Vinnie keep calling Austin as he punches him?

3. What scares Paul about going to college?

4. Paul feels his entrance to Philips is the reverse of what movie?

5. What causes Paul to feel guilty about his relationship with Kite?

(see the answer keys)

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