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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 trials with women?
(a) It is demeaning.
(b) It is useless.
(c) It is shameful.
(d) It is necessary.

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

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

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

5. Who inspires Paul to finally come out of the closet?
(a) Greg.
(b) Roger.
(c) Bobby.
(d) The Navy.

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

7. How is it apparent Julia is jealous of Sally?
(a) Julia gives Sally the cold shoulder.
(b) Julia is overly nice to Sally above everyone else.
(c) Julia asks a lot of questions about Sally.
(d) Her comment on Sally's looks and comparing herself in bed.

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

9. All his life, Paul goes through many trials and disasters in love. How does he feel about it all?
(a) It is a learning experience.
(b) It is Fate and worth the road to Roger.
(c) It is his mother's fault.
(d) Much of it is preventable, if only he came out sooner.

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

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

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

13. What does Paul purposefully do one Saturday after seeing some theater?
(a) Take the first train home to avoid the crowds.
(b) Miss the last train home.
(c) Go to a pub to pick someone up.
(d) Flirt with a man older than him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What eventually happens to Greg?

2. How does Paul advertise himself at Canton?

3. What keeps Paul from being drafted?

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

5. What does Paul tell anyone for the first time during his autobiographical reading?

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