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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Paul feel about his relationship with Ellen?
(a) He likes the sex but does not understand her.
(b) He believes she is marriage material.
(c) He believes they are too co-dependent.
(d) He has a nagging feeling he is faking it.

2. What is the bond between Paul and Star's friendship?
(a) Their search for a purpose in life after college.
(b) Their love for art history.
(c) There common feelings about their parents.
(d) Share of grief over Bill.

3. What is Paul's response to the possibility that he may one day have to take care of Bobby?
(a) He believes his parents are looking to the wrong person.
(b) He starts planning how Bobby will fit into his life immediately.
(c) He tells his parents he refuses to give up his own life for his brother's.
(d) He is stressed about it but will do anything for his brother.

4. What does Paul experience for the first time in Cambridge?
(a) Kissing another man.
(b) Pride.
(c) Being invited to so many parties.
(d) Sex with a girl.

5. Paul surprisingly does what on Bastille Day?
(a) Meets a girl and makes out with her.
(b) Tells Francis the truth.
(c) Have a one night stand.
(d) Attends a mass at Notre Dame.

6. What does Paul like to do while reading Thoreau?
(a) Read aloud to capture the meaning.
(b) Sit naked in the woods.
(c) End a reading with a song from Bob Dylan.
(d) Compare Thoreau's writings to his journal.

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

8. Whose eerie room does Paul observe by accident and does not want to become like?
(a) Miss Jameson's.
(b) The Dean of Canton Academy.
(c) The history teacher at Canton.
(d) Allston's.

9. What does Edie encourage Paul about concerning his identity?
(a) That he is definitely straight but with feminine tendencies.
(b) That he is definitely a great poet.
(c) That he is definitely gay.
(d) That he is definitely a bisexual.

10. Paul's time with Betsy feels like what to him?
(a) A romance movie.
(b) A comedy.
(c) A big fat lie.
(d) A Greek dramedy.

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

12. What bond brings Alida and Paul together?
(a) Search for love.
(b) Attempting to be bohemian with bourgeois privileges.
(c) Classic literature.
(d) Local theater.

13. In Paul's sexual life, what two oppositions does he battle with?
(a) Lust and love.
(b) Boy or girl.
(c) Guilt and Experience.
(d) Monogamy and flings.

14. What eventually happens to Greg?
(a) He is expelled.
(b) He is drafted into the war.
(c) He moves away the following year.
(d) He runs away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul acquire in April?

2. Why is Paul jealous of Justin?

3. As things get dryer in Paul's life, what does he feel he needs more of?

4. Who inspires Paul to finally come out of the closet?

5. What does Cantwell tell Paul to stop doing?

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