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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Paul's class poem about?
(a) Living a life of secrets.
(b) Finding happiness.
(c) Creating opportunities.
(d) His past crushes.

2. Why is Paul jealous of Justin?
(a) Justin gets to date Sally.
(b) Justin is in a happy homosexual relationship.
(c) Justin is open and proud to be gay.
(d) Justin is more manly.

3. What does Paul do to keep himself away from Greg?
(a) Pay more attention to the other boys.
(b) Stay in the library and avoid the dorms until late hours.
(c) No longer allow the boys to hang out in his room.
(d) Start another sexual relationship.

4. How does Paul feel about his trials with women?
(a) It is shameful.
(b) It is demeaning.
(c) It is necessary.
(d) It is useless.

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

6. Greg and Paul's relationship can be described as _________.
(a) Under Paul's control.
(b) A healthy relationship.
(c) Under Greg's control.
(d) Mutual.

7. According to Paul, what makes Ellen so pretty?
(a) Her depression.
(b) Her wild ways.
(c) Her mysteriousness.
(d) Her laugh.

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

9. How does Alida realize Paul is definitely gay?
(a) His coded love poem to Scott.
(b) She catches Paul in a one-night stand with a man.
(c) Greg tells her everything that happened at Sutton Hill.
(d) Paul tells her about his feelings for Scott.

10. What does Paul like to answer when someones asks what he is doing?
(a) "Travelling the world."
(b) "Writing poetry."
(c) "Writing a novel."
(d) "Getting material."

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

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

13. How does Paul's relationship with his mother progress over time?
(a) Jackie is angry and disappointed in Paul for his life decisions.
(b) They become closer as they understand one another more.
(c) Paul is angry at Jackie for her insistence on caring for Bobby.
(d) A gap grow apart.

14. Who does Paul dedicate his book of poems to?
(a) Alida and Ellen.
(b) His parents and Bobby.
(c) Julia and César.
(d) Roger and Stevie.

15. What does Paul try out at Cantwell's suggestion?
(a) Talk to his mother about the day she asks him about Kite.
(b) Talk to Bobby about his guilt for being able to walk.
(c) Try being a homosexual.
(d) Try being a heterosexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What eventually happens to Greg?

2. What major change occurs in Paul when he returns from Georgia?

3. How does Paul begin seeing Cantwell?

4. Paul gets into what dangerous situation in France?

5. Where does Paul live immediately after college?

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