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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. Before any guests arrive to Jude and Willem's party, what action does Jude take?
(a) He takes a long bubble bath.
(b) He lies down in bed.
(c) He burns himself on the stove.
(d) He falls asleep on the couch.

2. In what location does Jude keep his self-harm kits?
(a) Under the couch cushions.
(b) In the back of the closet.
(c) Taped under the sink.
(d) Behind a tile in the fireplace.

3. What is Harold's last name?
(a) Miller.
(b) Cruise.
(c) Stein.
(d) Jones.

4. What is the only phrase Jude has ever mentioned in connection with his damaged legs?
(a) A disease.
(b) A car accident.
(c) An illness.
(d) A beating.

5. Willem's friends tease him about what aspect of his character?
(a) How lazy he is in the romance department.
(b) How much attention he receives from men.
(c) How much attention he receives from women.
(d) How he feels about his female friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is looking at an apartment on Lispenard Street in the novel's opening scene?

2. After what event does Willem decide that he will never go home again?

3. Who recalls Jude coming to college with only a single backpack in tow?

4. In hopes of progressing in his career, JB gets a job as a receptionist at what kind of establishment?

5. In what state was the group home where Jude lived for a time?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Jude feel out-of-step with the rest of his peers' experiences?

2. Who is Felix and what is significant about his emotional breakdown?

3. In what way is the theme of isolation depicted within Chapter 1 of Part II: The Postman?

4. How does the theme of deception enter the narrative within the friendship between Willem and Jude?

5. Discuss the socioeconomic gaps present among the group of four friends: Malcolm, JB, Willem, and Jude.

6. Characterize the priests' attitudes about Jude's pursuit of knowledge about his own past.

7. What happens to necessitate the use of the fire escape?

8. Discuss a time when Yanigihara uses a metaphor to represent some aspect of friendship.

9. Characterize Willem's relationship with his parents prior to their deaths.

10. In what way is the theme of acquiescence included in the first part of A Little Life?

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