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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, what book does Jones begin that he comes to love?
(a) The Bluest Eye.
(b) The Invisible Man.
(c) Another Country.
(d) Beloved.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother do when he tells her he is not going to church with her any more?

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

3. In Chapter 3, who is the man who is killed whose death Jones sees reported on the news?

4. In Chapter 8, what university ends up offering Jones a full scholarship for attendance there?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how does Jones feel when he hears about the murder of James Byrd Jr.?

2. In Chapter 4, what makes Jones think he will refuse to come to his grandmother's for future summers?

3. In Chapter 9, what illness does Jones and his mother find out she is suffering from, and who does Jones call to tell the rest of the family?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Jones, Cody, and Sam find in the woods that they split up and share?

5. In Chapter 6, what is Jones's mother very upset about finding on the computer in their house?

6. In Chapter 2, how does Jones feel when Cody calls him a faggot?

7. In Chapter 4, why does Jones's mother send him to Memphis to stay with his grandmother for half of each summer every year?

8. In Chapter 5, what kinds of stories is Jones very interested in in adolescence, and why?

9. In Chapter 8, why does Jones start visiting the Cedar Springs section of Dallas as much as he can?

10. In Chapter 1, what is the book that Jones becomes enamored with, and why?

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