2. What New Year's resolution does Paul make while in Puerto Rico?
(a) To have sex without shame.
(b) To stop buying men magazines.
(c) To try heterosexual relationships.
(d) To not run away next time someone wants him.

3. Where does Paul meet the Navy man?
(a) At the Cambridge library.
(b) Picadilly Circus.
(c) Trafalgar Square.
(d) The Globe Theater.

4. What keeps Paul from being drafted?
(a) He gets excused for his work as a teacher.
(b) He claims conscientious objection.
(c) His anaphylactic allergies to bees and penicillen.
(d) He tells them he is gay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character type does Paul imitate to impress the Navy man?

2. What does Pip and Paul want to believe about women and relationships?

3. What does Paul like to answer when someones asks what he is doing?

4. How does Paul handle his loneliness over the years after college?

5. What unexpected act does Paul do in Dr. Richard's office?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Paul feel about graduation time at Yale?

3. What is it that Paul likes so much about his travels in Europe? How does his time there allow him to be freer than he has ever been?

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

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

6. What is Paul's life situation in the immediate year post-college? How does he feel about his situation? How do his parents feel about the situation?

7. 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?

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

9. How does Paul respond to his first attempt at therapy?

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

(see the answer keys)

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