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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author does Jones begin Part Two of the book with a quote from?
(a) Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley.
(b) Tayari Jones.
(c) Sadie Smith.
(d) Nikki Giovanni.

2. In Chapter 8, who does Jones go to New York City with when he is a child?
(a) His mother, grandmother, and cousins.
(b) His mother's friends.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandfather.

3. What do most of the books Jones finds about homosexuality as a young boy also include information about?
(a) Religion.
(b) Conversion therapy.
(c) Recommended novels for further reading.
(d) AIDS.

4. How is the black man whose death Jones sees reported on the news killed in Chapter 3?
(a) He is poisoned by his partner.
(b) He is shot by three white supremacists.
(c) Three white supremacists stab him to death.
(d) Three white supremacists beat him, chain him to their truck and drag him behind them as they drive.

5. Well into his high school years, what does Jones have recurring dreams about?
(a) Dressing as a woman.
(b) Getting revenge on Cody.
(c) His mother dying.
(d) Having a woman's body.

6. In Chapter 1, what does Jones find tucked into a novel of his mother's that interests him?
(a) A photo of a young, attractive black man.
(b) A grocery list with strange items on it.
(c) A note from his father, who he never knew.
(d) A photo of his mother as a young girl.

7. In Chapter 2, what does Cody ask Jones to do with him and Sam that Jones is pleased about?
(a) Play baseball with them.
(b) Have lunch every day at Cody's house.
(c) Go to the woods to investigate and possibly vandalize a homeless person's makeshift shelter there.
(d) Go to the movies.

8. In Chapter 4, where does Jones's grandmother live?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Austin.

9. Where does Jones's mother work in Chapter 1?
(a) City Hall.
(b) A law office.
(c) The airport.
(d) McDonald's.

10. In Chapter 8, how does Jones feel after telling his mother about his scholarship to college?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Angry, because she did not react the way he thought she would.
(d) Good, but disappointed that it does not make a bigger difference to her health.

11. In Chapter 8, where does Jones get accepted to college and where he desperately would like to attend?
(a) Princeton.
(b) New York University.
(c) Columbia University?
(d) Yale.

12. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother do when he tells her he is not going to church with her any more?
(a) Slaps him.
(b) Takes the sheets off his bed with him still on it.
(c) Calls the pastor in to talk to him at her house.
(d) Threatens him with a knife.

13. In Chapter 8, why does Jones's mother take him to New York City when he is a young child?
(a) For a job offer.
(b) For culture.
(c) So he can eat food from different cultures.
(d) For a family vacation.

14. In Chapter 7, what does Jones immediately think when the man next to him at the library computer terminal tells him he is also into what Jones is looking at?
(a) He thinks about how sad he is that he never knew his father.
(b) He thinks about James Byrd Jr. getting into a truck with white supremacists.
(c) He thinks about Cody bullying him from his youth.
(d) He thinks about his mother being disappointed in him.

15. In Chapter 1, what does Jones think about all the time?
(a) Finding a job.
(b) Going to New York City.
(c) His father.
(d) Being gay.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what event is going on in New York City when Jones visits for the first time as a child?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Jones notice sitting in a Ziploc back on his mother's nightstand at the hospital?

3. In the Prelude, what kind of music does Jones refer to in the title of the Prelude?

4. In Chapter 7, what was the first man Jones tried to kiss wearing?

5. In Chapter 4, what word does Jones's grandmother use to describe him in a negative way?

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