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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Jones, Cody and Sam find in the hut in the woods?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Pornographic magazines.
(d) Drugs.

2. 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 his mother being disappointed in him.
(b) He thinks about how sad he is that he never knew his father.
(c) He thinks about James Byrd Jr. getting into a truck with white supremacists.
(d) He thinks about Cody bullying him from his youth.

3. What kinds of books does Jones particularly like to read as a child?
(a) Greek mythology.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Horror stories.
(d) Sports stories.

4. In Chapter 4, what word does Jones's grandmother use to describe him in a negative way?
(a) Wordly.
(b) Uppity.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Frosty.

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

6. 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.

7. In Chapter 7, what does the man next to Jones at the library computer terminal ask him about what he is looking at?
(a) Whether his father knows he is looking at these sites.
(b) Whether his mother knows he is looking at these sites.
(c) Whether he knows that God can see what he is doing.
(d) Whether he is "into that."

8. In Chapter 8, what do Jones's mother's friends take him to see?
(a) The musical Rent.
(b) His first drag show.
(c) Professional wrestling.
(d) A X-rated movie.

9. What does Cody call Jones that Jones writes was almost a relief to hear someone finally say out loud?
(a) Faggot.
(b) Urchin.
(c) Liar.
(d) Pervert.

10. In Chapter 8, what event is going on in New York City when Jones visits for the first time as a child?
(a) Pride Month.
(b) The Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(c) The Olympics.
(d) St. Patrick's Day.

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

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

13. What is Jones surprised about regarding the items he, Cody and Sam take from the hut in the woods?
(a) How dirty the bottles of water are.
(b) How glamorous the magazine spreads look.
(c) How decent the food tastes.
(d) How strong the drugs are.

14. In Chapter 7, where does the man next to Jones at the library computer terminals ask Jones to meet him?
(a) In the gay bar downtown.
(b) In his own house a few blocks away.
(c) In the bookstore about a ten-minute walk from the library.
(d) In the last stall of the library restroom.

15. In Chapter 7, what job does Jones apply for that is met with a rejection?
(a) Re-shelving books at the library.
(b) Long-term caregiving for the elderly.
(c) Waiting tables.
(d) Working at McDonald's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prelude, what kind of hairstyle does Jones's mother wear?

2. How is the black man whose death Jones sees reported on the news killed in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 4, what does Jones realize after his grandmother takes him to the pulpit of her church?

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

5. What do most of the books Jones finds about homosexuality as a young boy also include information about?

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