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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good deed does Paul volunteer to do?
(a) Hold a poetry workshop for free.
(b) Tutor inner city kids.
(c) Be a Big Brother.
(d) Spend extra time with failing kids.

2. What does Paul focus on his senior year at Yale?
(a) Helping his Elihu brothers.
(b) His Tennyson thesis.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Talking about writing his novel.

3. Who does Paul compare himself to as he teaches English?
(a) Samsa from "Metamorphosis."
(b) Clyde from "An American Tragedy."
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) Oedipus.

4. What does Paul imagine himself to be if he is to never come out of the closet?
(a) A depressed poet.
(b) A damned fool.
(c) An old man like Raf.
(d) A lonely schoolteacher.

5. What excuse does Julia give to break up with Paul?
(a) Julia is unable to handle the long distance.
(b) Julia is going back to being a lesbian.
(c) They are too strong for each other.
(d) Paul is more gay than she thought.

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

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

8. Where does Paul turn to in order to avoid going back to his cold home?
(a) Star.
(b) Elihu.
(c) Library.
(d) Art museum.

9. 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.

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

11. Who does Paul become co-dependent on to help his self-esteem?
(a) Jackie.
(b) David.
(c) Emrald.
(d) Bobby.

12. 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 coutier role.
(d) His dancing moves.

13. Those who wait to love as long as Paul come to what possible endings?
(a) A dead end coward or a bomb ready to explode.
(b) A dry prune or the symbol of persistence.
(c) A cynic or a mascot of hope.
(d) A sentamentalist or die of disillusion.

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

15. As usual, who does Paul best get along with at Canton?
(a) Young boys.
(b) Older men in the closet.
(c) Women.
(d) Older married women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Paul's class poem about?

2. Greg and Paul's relationship can be described as _________.

3. All his life, Paul goes through many trials and disasters in love. How does he feel about it all?

4. In the years immediately after college, what ideal picture does Paul go searching for in his life?

5. What is Paul's response to the possibility that he may one day have to take care of Bobby?

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