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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. Where does Jones go to try to find out more about homosexuality?
(a) His uncle's house.
(b) The record shop down the street from his house.
(c) The public library.
(d) Gay bars in town.

2. Well into his high school years, what does Jones have recurring dreams about?
(a) Getting revenge on Cody.
(b) His mother dying.
(c) Dressing as a woman.
(d) Having a woman's body.

3. In Chapter 3, Jones says he is the kind of boy who did what as a child?
(a) Collected rocks.
(b) Performed science experiments.
(c) Spent all his time outside.
(d) Loved sports.

4. 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?
(a) He thinks about Cody bullying him from his youth.
(b) He thinks about James Byrd Jr. getting into a truck with white supremacists.
(c) He thinks about his mother being disappointed in him.
(d) He thinks about how sad he is that he never knew his father.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 8, what illness is Jones's mother diagnosed with?

3. How is the black man whose death Jones sees reported on the news killed in Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 8, what is standing in the way of Jones attending the university he wants to attend?

5. What author does Jones begin Part Two of the book with a quote from?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 6, why does Jones feel so shaken after seeing The Laramie Project?

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