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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Alida to leave the interior decorating business?
(a) She is jealous of Paul's happiness.
(b) Her feelings for Paul are too strong as he falls apart.
(c) Alida finds a man and is moving to Texas.
(d) Alida is returning to Princeton.

2. What impression does Paul and Alida give off when they are together?
(a) That they are a couple.
(b) They are better off as friends than business partners.
(c) She's madly in love with him but he only likes her as a friend.
(d) He's madly in love with her but she only likes him as a friend.

3. What obligation looms over Paul as he tries to figure out his life?
(a) Taking care of Bobby.
(b) His novel.
(c) Keeping his parents happy.
(d) The draft into war.

4. What angers Paul as he vacations in Truro with Ellen?
(a) Ellen tells him he is not that great in bed.
(b) Ellen flirts with another man on the beach.
(c) A stranger flirts with Ellen in front of him.
(d) A stranger states Paul is gay.

5. Bobby asks Paul if he is sleeping with Alida. Of the following, which best matches the answer Paul replies to Bobby?
(a) "I've tried, but she won't have me."
(b) "Of course."
(c) "Why would I, she's a woman."
(d) "My penis doesn't work."

6. Why does Paul head to Monaco?
(a) Someone he meets suggests it to him.
(b) He hears gay men are more open there.
(c) He is to meet his friend David.
(d) Because Betsy wants to.

7. What is a noticeable trait of César?
(a) He's a charming socialite.
(b) He is a closet gay.
(c) He knows how to talk smoothly to women.
(d) He freezes up in large groups.

8. How does Paul reach the Provence?
(a) With two French ladies who see him sleeping under a cafe table.
(b) Hitchikes on a truck with some pigs.
(c) A crowded local bus that takes many hours from Paris.
(d) Catches a train with another American.

9. What opportunity does Paul get after Sutton?
(a) Acceptance to the graduate program at Harvard.
(b) A job at Canton Academy.
(c) A writing job for a start-up magazine in California.
(d) A free ride out to California.

10. What does Paul utilize when partying on the beaches of the Riviera?
(a) His mysterious status as the foreigner.
(b) His skills in poetry reading.
(c) His dancing moves.
(d) His coutier role.

11. Who does Paul meet to travel Italy?
(a) Francis from Andover.
(b) Betsy from Paris.
(c) David from Yale.
(d) Star from Yale.

12. What unexpected act does Paul do in Dr. Richard's office?
(a) Lie about the relationship.
(b) Attempt to tell the truth.
(c) Defend Greg's naivete.
(d) Offer resignation.

13. Paul takes another chance with who by going to Georgia for a vacation?
(a) Edie.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Harold.

14. How does Paul advertise himself at Canton?
(a) As a liberal.
(b) As the young hip teacher.
(c) As a beatnik.
(d) Poet-not-gay.

15. Where does Paul live immediately after college?
(a) Back at Andover with his parents.
(b) A cabin outside of New Haven.
(c) In an apartment with a fellow Yalie.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul purposefully do one Saturday after seeing some theater?

2. What insecurity does Paul acquire after coming out of the closet?

3. Where is the only place Paul feels he can hide?

4. What does Paul focus on his senior year at Yale?

5. Who does Paul console on Tuesdays and Thursdays?

(see the answer keys)

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