View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the last line of the Prelude, what does Jones say is in his mother's blood as she dances?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Rhythm.
(c) Fire.
(d) Joy.

2. In Chapter 6, what play does Jones and his class see in high school?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Angels in America.
(c) Rent.
(d) The Laramie Project.

3. In Chapter 3, in what town is a black man brutally killed in 1998?
(a) Jasper, Texas.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) San Francisco, California.
(d) Lewisville, Texas.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the woods, what is the structure that Jones, Cody and Sam find made out of?

2. Where does Jones go to try to find out more about homosexuality?

3. In Chapter 8, where does Jones get accepted to college and where he desperately would like to attend?

4. In Chapter 8, what does Jones realize about the stranger he goes home with once he is in the man's house?

5. What job did Jones's mother work at for a brief time during her twenties?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, why is Jones so upset with the evangelical preacher's "prayer" for him and his mother?

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

3. In Chapter 6, what bothers Jones about some of his classmates' reactions to the play they see in his high school together?

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

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

6. In Chapter 9, what is the prognosis for Jones's mother after the diagnosis of her illness?

7. In Chapter 8, what happens after Jones is accepted into New York University for college?

8. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother get very upset about finding in his bedroom?

9. In Chapter 1, what does Jones find tucked away in the book he is enamored with that intrigues him?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 740 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample