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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Paul handle his loneliness over the years after college?
(a) He joins numerous clubs and activities to keep himself busy.
(b) He becomes more religious.
(c) With one night stands.
(d) With magazines.

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

3. What obligation looms over Paul as he tries to figure out his life?
(a) His novel.
(b) The draft into war.
(c) Taking care of Bobby.
(d) Keeping his parents happy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Paul from being drafted?

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

3. Who does Paul meet to travel Italy?

4. What good deed does Paul volunteer to do?

5. Bobby asks Paul if he is sleeping with Alida. Of the following, which best matches the answer Paul replies to Bobby?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paul react to Bill's death?

2. Compare and contrast Greg to the way Paul was when he was in high school.

3. Compare and contrast Paul's life and role between Sutton Hill and Canton Academy. Which seems more fitting for Paul? In what way?

4. How does Paul view his autobiographical reading? What does he get from it?

5. What causes Paul to react the way he does with the Navy man after sex?

6. Paul has a dream that his penis unscrews likes a light bulb and he is unable to get it back on. How does this sum up Paul's life at the time?

7. Why does Paul's self-esteem go up when the French soldiers cheer him on?

8. Why does Paul relate to Coward's work Song at Twilight?

9. Paul has several ideas concerning love. According to Paul, love allows a person to do what? What is needed from a person the deeper love gets?

10. What epiphany does Paul realize as he gets to know the personal loves of all his lovers during his spree of flings in Boston?

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