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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the man in #91 do for Hunton?
(a) Paid for his education.
(b) Gave him a job.
(c) Adopted him.
(d) Paid for a European vacation.

2. "The Beautiful Room is Empty" takes place during the 1950s and 1960s in which country?
(a) Japan.
(b) Canada.
(c) America.
(d) Australia.

3. What does Tex complain to the narrator about in Chapter 2?
(a) His financial situation.
(b) Politics.
(c) The weather.
(d) His marital status.

4. What type of career does the narrator hope to establish?
(a) Writer.
(b) Artist.
(c) Therapist.
(d) Athlete.

5. With whom is the narrator visiting at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Maria.
(b) Chad.
(c) Tex.
(d) Morris.

6. In Chapter 2, the narrator is in his last year of ___________________.
(a) junior high.
(b) grad school.
(c) boarding school.
(d) college.

7. Tex believes that once a man ______________________________, he becomes uninteresting to other homosexuals.
(a) has been married.
(b) has sex with a woman.
(c) begins acting on his sexual desires for other men.
(d) becomes old.

8. The history of emerging lesbian rights and identity is closely related to ____________________.
(a) the history of feminism.
(b) slavery.
(c) the American Revolution.
(d) the Holocaust.

9. With whom is Tex intimately involved?
(a) His old girlfriend.
(b) His landlord.
(c) A married man.
(d) His brother-in-law.

10. The narrator's feelings about his father lead the narrator to make judgmental comments about __________________.
(a) his father.
(b) his soccer coach.
(c) his mother.
(d) an effeminate English teacher.

11. What is notable about Morris?
(a) He is extremely tall.
(b) He is effeminate.
(c) He is a published author.
(d) He is deaf and dumb.

12. From what part of the country does Tex come?
(a) Midwest.
(b) South.
(c) New England.
(d) Northwest.

13. Who is the psychiatrist treating the narrator?
(a) Dr. Kerrigan.
(b) Dr. O'Reilly.
(c) Dr. Morrison.
(d) Dr. Gruber.

14. The protagonist of the story wants a career as a/an __________________.
(a) attorney.
(b) priest.
(c) writer.
(d) architect.

15. The girl in #67 suffers from ____________________.
(a) an abusive father.
(b) bipolar disease.
(c) agoraphobia.
(d) schizophrenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's father's knowledge of the narrator's sexuality created ____________________.

2. How can Kay best be described?

3. Who is Maria?

4. How can Ivan best be described?

5. Who is Tex?

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