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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 8, how does Jones travel to the university that offers him the scholarship?
(a) He hitchhikes.
(b) On a plane ticket paid for by his mother's Delta benefits.
(c) He takes the train.
(d) By rental car.

2. In Chapter 7, what does Jones do for most of his time at the public library?
(a) Apply to colleges.
(b) Use the computers for adult content.
(c) Eat snacks.
(d) Write letters to editors.

3. In Chapter 6, why is Jones's mother upset about what she finds on Jones's computer?
(a) She realizes Jones has been buying expensive pornography online.
(b) She realizes Jones has been looking for his father online.
(c) She realizes Jones has been plotting to run away.
(d) She realizes Jones has been communicating with older men online.

4. In Chapter 8, what university ends up offering Jones a full scholarship for attendance there?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) American University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Western Kentucky University.

5. In Chapter 8, what illness is Jones's mother diagnosed with?
(a) Congestive heart failure.
(b) Lyme Disease.
(c) Multiple Sclerosis.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, who is the play Jones sees in high school primarily about?

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

3. In Chapter 4, who in Jones's family does he refer to as a man of God?

4. What do most of the books Jones finds about homosexuality as a young boy also include information about?

5. In Chapter 7, what does Jones immediately think when the man next to him at the library computer terminal tells him he is also into what Jones is looking at?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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