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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is the only place Paul feels he can hide?
(a) In his room on Stratford Road.
(b) The Elihu house.
(c) In his shame and self-hatred.
(d) Philips Academy.

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

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

7. What does Paul learn about love?
(a) It is anti-climatic.
(b) It is everything he thought it would be.
(c) It is harder than he realized.
(d) It is not as romantic as he thought.

8. Paul gets into what dangerous situation in France?
(a) A man attempts to make Paul perform oral sex.
(b) He is mugged as he walks out of a theater.
(c) A bar fight with a man much bigger than he.
(d) He almost loses his plane ticket home.

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

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

11. The way in which Paul goes about his quest to be heterosexual can be described as _______________.
(a) Hesitant.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Caring for the women he dates.
(d) Too easy.

12. How does the man from the airplane turn Paul off?
(a) He asks too many questions about Paul's gay life.
(b) He shows disapproval in Paul for being in the closet.
(c) He is not sexual enough for Paul.
(d) He demands too much time from Paul.

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

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

15. How does Paul distract himself from his stalled novel?
(a) Writing letters to old friends.
(b) Drinking in pubs.
(c) Spending time with Elihu boys.
(d) Walking on the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about Bill?

2. What does Paul imagine himself to be if he is to never come out of the closet?

3. What does Paul do to keep himself away from Greg?

4. How does Paul advertise himself at Canton?

5. How is Pip unhealthy for Paul?

(see the answer keys)

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