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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 do the adults communicate after returning from a shining city in the narrator's dream?
(a) In writing.
(b) In French.
(c) By sign.
(d) Through touch.

2. Who brings Sebastian back to life, following his attempted execution?
(a) The priest.
(b) His lover.
(c) His mother.
(d) A widow.

3. Over the summer, why does the narrator suddenly feel close to Omi?
(a) He grows underarm hair.
(b) His mother mentions Omi.
(c) He sees a boy who looks like Omi.
(d) There is an article in the paper about Omi.

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

5. Why is it ironic that the narrator cannot swim?
(a) He is an expert diver.
(b) His mother teaches him every year.
(c) Omi is the swimming champion.
(d) He loves the ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Omi doing when the narrator finds him alone in the schoolyard?

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

3. A friend suggests the narrator should target whom for the graphic game?

4. What do the boys at school believe about Omi?

5. What does the narrator do to celebrate his admiration for the female magician?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impression is left by the narrator's memory of a night-soil man?

2. Who was Sebastian of Reni's "Saint Sebastian"?

3. What attracts the narrator to soldiers as a youth?

4. Why does the prince in the Hungarian fairy tale upset the narrator?

5. What attracts the narrator to the disinterested girl on the bus?

6. What is the reaction of his family when the narrator dresses up as the magician, Tenkatsu?

7. Over the summer, the narrator realizes his love for Omi may actually be what?

8. What sickness does the narrator suffer from and how does it affect him?

9. Describe the narrator's fantasy perception of Omi.

10. Why does the narrator believe that his lack of interest in women may have to do with laziness?

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