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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 14 - 17).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what play does Jones and his class see in high school?
(a) Rent.
(b) Angels in America.
(c) The Laramie Project.
(d) Persephone.

2. In Chapter 14, what does Jones start doing to his friend in his friend's car?
(a) Rubbing his shoulders.
(b) Performing oral sex on him.
(c) Rubbing his thighs.
(d) Kissing him on the lips.

3. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother often call him affectionately?
(a) Boy.
(b) Cedrick.
(c) Darling.
(d) Cy.

4. What other murdered man does Jones connect the figure at the heart of they play he sees in high school with?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) James Byrd Jr.
(c) James Jones.
(d) Malcolm X.

5. In Chapter 15, what happens suddenly when Jones and the man he is with on New Years Eve are kissing?
(a) The man makes a phone call.
(b) The man starts drinking heavily again.
(c) The man starts hitting Jones violently.
(d) The man goes and gets a knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what kinds of trees on campus remind Jones of his grandmother's house?

2. Which student was brutally beaten, raped, and killed at the university Jones attends?

3. In Chapter 8, where does Jones get accepted to college and where he desperately would like to attend?

4. In Chapter 16, what question begins to plague Jones about what happened New Year's Eve?

5. Who is one character from Greek mythology that Jones experiments writing in the voice of?

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