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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. In what year did the narrator begin dating Charlie?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1977.
2. For whom had Charlie left the narrator?
(a) Marco.
(b) Jason.
(c) Raoul.
(d) Rico.
3. Marie is the narrator's what lover?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Fourteenth.
(c) Seventeenth.
(d) Tenth.
4. What does the narrator say they had "just discovered" in Chapter 1 of the intro?
(a) Willfulness.
(b) Irony.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Lust.
5. What does Marie believe that sex is?
(a) A justified response.
(b) A primal need.
(c) An atrocity.
(d) A human right.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the narrator say that Kevin Bannister had been kissing for a couple of weeks in the beginning of the novel?
2. What are the narrator's parents attending when he arrives in Chapter 11?
3. Who did Penny date after the narrator?
4. What movie do the narrator's parents take him to see?
5. Who says, "I don't care if you've got the blues. It's OK. And I wasn't fooled by you acting all cool about... what's her name"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the protagonist discover who "Ian" is? How does he recall this character?
2. What does Rob recall about how he met Laura? What song did she request?
3. How does the main character react to the pricing of the record collection?
4. What does the narrator do in times of trouble? How does this console him?
5. What does Rob say when he thinks of the progression of his and Laura's relationship?
6. What does Rob ask Laura about Ian in Chapter 10? What does she respond?
7. What interaction does Barry have with a customer in the shop that angers Rob? How does he react?
8. Where does the protagonist work? How does he describe this place?
9. What does the protagonist think when he sees the record collection of the woman who called? Why does she have the price she does for the collection?
10. What were the narrator's first two relationships like and how did they end?
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