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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, pages 126-153.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect do death and blood have on the narrator during puberty?
(a) They frighten him.
(b) They haunt him.
(c) The repulse him.
(d) They arouse him.

2. Whom does the narrator relate to in the stories he reads?
(a) The dragon.
(b) The poor.
(c) The prince.
(d) The princess.

3. What does the narrator fear about his behavior towards Sonoko?
(a) It is false.
(b) It is cocky.
(c) It is too effeminate.
(d) It is too forward.

4. In order to appear masculine, what does the narrator convince his female cousins to do?
(a) Play war.
(b) Cliff dive.
(c) Kill a bird.
(d) Shoot at a soldier.

5. What does the narrator fantasize about after his meeting with Omi in the school yard?
(a) Killing Omi.
(b) To get good grades.
(c) For Omi to punch him.
(d) Seeing him naked.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the narrator graduate from high school?

2. What does Reni's "Saint Sebastian" cause the narrator to do for the first time?

3. Where does the narrator learn about heterosexual sex?

4. At the school, who knows why Omi has been expelled?

5. What do the boys at the school notice about Omi's body?

(see the answer key)

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