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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother's pastor say that Jones is appalled at?
(a) He prays that Jones be struck down by God.
(b) He prays that Jones's mother will become ill.
(c) He prays that Jones's grandmother will find strength to disown him.
(d) He prays that all gays will be confined to Hell.

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

3. What do Cody and Sam do to Jones on one occasion when they are supposed to be trading magazines?
(a) Beat him with a baseball bat.
(b) Steal his magazine and lock him out of their house.
(c) Hit him with a rock from a slingshot.
(d) Tell his mother he has been looking at pornography.

4. 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 the bookstore about a ten-minute walk from the library.
(c) In his own house a few blocks away.
(d) In the last stall of the library restroom.

5. In Chapter 8, what is Jones's scholarship for?
(a) Music.
(b) Speech and debate.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Track.

6. In Chapter 6, who is the play Jones sees in high school primarily about?
(a) Matthew Shepard.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Tim Oakley.
(d) Michael Jackson.

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

8. In Chapter 9, what symptoms cause Jones's mother to go to the hospital?
(a) She can not move her legs.
(b) She has terrible abdominal pain.
(c) She has the worst headache of her life.
(d) She is short of breath and had collapsed earlier after work in the parking lot.

9. Where is Chapter 1 set?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Lubbock, Texas.
(c) Lewisville, Texas.
(d) Memphis, Tennessee.

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

11. Who is one character from Greek mythology that Jones experiments writing in the voice of?
(a) Electra.
(b) Ariadne.
(c) Medusa.
(d) Aphrodite.

12. In Chapter 3, Jones says he is the kind of boy who did what as a child?
(a) Collected rocks.
(b) Performed science experiments.
(c) Loved sports.
(d) Spent all his time outside.

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

14. Where does Jones meet a man he goes home with at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) A gay bookstore.
(b) A gay bar.
(c) The library.
(d) The grocery store.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, who does Jones's mother sometimes call out for in her sleep?

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

3. In Chapter 6, what happens when Jones tries to kiss the man in the library?

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

5. In Chapter 8, how does Jones travel to the university that offers him the scholarship?

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