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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator liken to a stage play?
(a) War.
(b) Love.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Life.

2. When the war begins, what does the country become?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Scared.
(d) Frightened.

3. The narrator is surprised he becomes attracted to whom as he gets older?
(a) Sickly young girls.
(b) Older women.
(c) Intellectual, older men.
(d) Graceful, young boys.

4. What about Omi begins to bother the narrator?
(a) His attraction to women.
(b) His disinterest in the narrator.
(c) His lisp.
(d) His physical perfection.

5. What does the narrator do to please his inner demons?
(a) Make out with girls.
(b) Make out with boys.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Make the demons heroes.

6. What object does the narrator claim to remember from his birth?
(a) The basin.
(b) His father's ring.
(c) The bed.
(d) His mother's necklace.

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

8. What does the narrator believe he must hide from others?
(a) His parentage.
(b) His true self.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His financial status.

9. In the essay his later self deems as false, what does the narrator trick himself into believing?
(a) He is smart.
(b) He is someone others admire.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is healthy.

10. After the battle, what does Omi do to the narrator?
(a) Kisses him.
(b) Punches him.
(c) Puts an arm around him.
(d) Threatens him.

11. In the first attempt to execute Sebastian, what weapon was used?
(a) The guillotine.
(b) Poison darts.
(c) Arrows.
(d) Guns.

12. Why does the narrator move in with his father?
(a) He has no money.
(b) He hates his mother.
(c) His grandparents out him.
(d) His father is a homosexual.

13. At the school, who knows why Omi has been expelled?
(a) Omi's brother.
(b) The janitor.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The teachers.

14. What impression does the narrator have of Omi after meeting him alone in the schoolyard?
(a) He is mean.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He is tough.
(d) He is brave.

15. How old is the narrator when he is first attracted to another man?
(a) Four.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator fantasize about after his meeting with Omi in the school yard?

2. What weapon is used to kill Sebastian for good?

3. With whom is the narrator typically allowed to play as a child?

4. In one particular story read by the narrator, what keeps a Hungarian prince alive?

5. As a child, the narrator fantasizes that who wants to kill him?

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