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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Jones imagine the man in the library doing after he leaves the library?
(a) Going home to a wife and family.
(b) Making dinner.
(c) Reading a book in the library.
(d) Going to work.

2. In Chapter 6, why is Jones's mother upset about what she finds on Jones's computer?
(a) She realizes Jones has been buying expensive pornography online.
(b) She realizes Jones has been looking for his father online.
(c) She realizes Jones has been plotting to run away.
(d) She realizes Jones has been communicating with older men online.

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

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

5. In Chapter 6, why is the main figure in the play Jones sees in high school targeted and beaten to death?
(a) He is poor.
(b) He is black.
(c) He is a Muslim.
(d) He is gay.

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

7. In Chapter 4, what does Jones realize after his grandmother takes him to the pulpit of her church?
(a) His grandmother does not love him.
(b) He wants to convert to the Evangelical church.
(c) He will never spend another summer with her again.
(d) He will have to move in with his grandmother.

8. In Chapter 4, why does Jones's grandmother slap him when he his a younger boy?
(a) For talking back to her after she tells him not to carry his books like a girl.
(b) For playing with her makeup.
(c) For watching racy movies.
(d) For wearing a dress.

9. In Chapter 8, how does Jones travel to the university that offers him the scholarship?
(a) On a plane ticket paid for by his mother's Delta benefits.
(b) He hitchhikes.
(c) By rental car.
(d) He takes the train.

10. In Chapter 5, as Jones gets older, what does he start to notice more?
(a) Gay bars.
(b) Gay music.
(c) Men's and boy's beautiful bodies.
(d) Gay literature.

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

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

13. What does Jones's mother routinely do as soon as she gets home from work in Chapter 1?
(a) Pour herself a glass of water and drink the entire thing.
(b) Make a snack.
(c) Have a cigar.
(d) Take the dog for a walk.

14. In Chapter 8, what does Jones realize about the stranger he goes home with once he is in the man's house?
(a) The man has lied to Jones about his real name.
(b) He has a wife and family.
(c) He does not have a job.
(d) The house the man has taken him to is not really his house.

15. In Chapter 4, who in Jones's family does he refer to as a man of God?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His cousin James.
(c) Uncle Ty.
(d) Uncle Albert.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what does Jones write that you never forget the first instance of?

2. In Chapter 7, what does Jones do for most of his time at the public library?

3. In Chapter 7, what does the man next to Jones at the library computer terminal ask him about what he is looking at?

4. In Chapter 9, what symptoms cause Jones's mother to go to the hospital?

5. Where does Jones's mother work in Chapter 1?

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