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

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

3. Who are the two neighbors Jones watches from his window as a boy in Chapter 1?
(a) Sam and Robert.
(b) Jeff and John.
(c) Cody and Sam.
(d) Mark and Henry.

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

5. 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) By rental car.
(c) He hitchhikes.
(d) He takes the train.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how does Jones feel after telling his mother about his scholarship to college?

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

3. In the Prelude, what kind of hairstyle does Jones's mother wear?

4. In Chapter 6, why is the main figure in the play Jones sees in high school targeted and beaten to death?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Jones's grandmother find in his room that causes her to make him pray with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, why is Jones excited and happy when his neighbor Cody asks him to go out in the woods with him and his brother?

2. In Chapter 8, what does NYU and the possibility of living in New York seem to represent for Jones?

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

4. In Chapter 8, how does Jones feel about New York City after his first visit there?

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

6. In Chapter 4, what had caused Jones's grandmother to hit him across the face several summers earlier?

7. In the summer after Jones finishes sixth grade, what does he spend much of his days doing?

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

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

10. In Chapter 5, what does Jones say you never forget?

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