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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following questions does Jones's mother ask him when he tells her he is gay?
(a) Whether he uses protection.
(b) Whether he is ever coming home again.
(c) Whether he has told anyone else yet.
(d) Whether he has a boyfriend.

2. In Chapter 10, who does Jones engage in sexual activity with at his first college party?
(a) Roman.
(b) Rob.
(c) Colby.
(d) James.

3. In Chapter 16, why does Jones feel he has to be so disciplined about his work?
(a) He wants his father to be proud of him.
(b) He needs to make more money.
(c) He wants his students to be proud of him.
(d) He does not want years to go by without his having published anything.

4. In Chapter 15, what does the man Jones is with on New Year's Eve keep repeating to Jones?
(a) You are sick and demented.
(b) You are mine now.
(c) You will not make it home.
(d) You're already dead.

5. In Chapter 10, what does Jones do for the first time at a college party?
(a) Drink from a red solo cup.
(b) Dress in a toga.
(c) Go home with two men.
(d) Eat cous cous.

6. In Chapter 16, what question begins to plague Jones about what happened New Year's Eve?
(a) If what had happened to him happens to other people too.
(b) If what had happened to him was torturing the perpetrator as much as it was torturing him.
(c) If he deserved what had happened to him.
(d) If what had happened to him is normal.

7. In Chapter 10, what does Jones's RA persuade him and some of his fellow students to do?
(a) Trust falls.
(b) Cook dinner together.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Play sports together.

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

9. In Chapter 12, which of the following lies does Jones tell the Botanist when they first meet?
(a) He is an athlete.
(b) He is rich.
(c) He is not really gay.
(d) He is a science major.

10. In Chapter 13, how does Jones explain his choice to see the Botanist again?
(a) He says they have the same sense of humor.
(b) He says they both like plants.
(c) He says they live in the same town, so it is convenient.
(d) He says they both like that they are damaging to each other.

11. What is playing on the television in the Botanist's bedroom when Jones and he enter it?
(a) A nature documentary.
(b) A romantic comedy movie.
(c) Pornography.
(d) The news.

12. In Chapter 10, what book does Jones take out to re-read?
(a) The Hours.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) The Awakening.
(d) The Dead.

13. In Chapter 14, what question does Jones's friend ask him that he had not expected him to ask so early in the game?
(a) What it feels like to have sex with a man.
(b) Whether he will ever get married someday.
(c) When he came out to his family.
(d) Whether he has ever had sex with a woman.

14. In Chapter 16, why does Jones's mother say they do not eat coconut cake in their family?
(a) Because many of them were allergic to coconut.
(b) Because everyone hated coconut.
(c) Because his grandmother was slicing a coconut cake when they heard Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
(d) Because it was the last cake they ate before her father died.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what does Jones tell his mother about how he spent New Year's Eve?

2. In Chapter 14, what makes Jones pay closer attention to the conversation his friend and his friend's roommate are having?

3. What is the last thing Jones's mother says to him when she drops him off at college?

4. In Chapter 13, why does Jones become concerned about his mother driving the U-Haul?

5. What kind of shoes does Jones wear to move into his university in Chapter 10?

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