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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 5, what does Jones write that you never forget the first instance of?
(a) The first time someone calls you a faggot.
(b) The first time you realize your mother has lied to you.
(c) The first time you realize you are mortal
(d) The first time you have sex.

2. In Chapter 8, what is Jones's scholarship for?
(a) Speech and debate.
(b) Track.
(c) Music.
(d) Basketball.

3. In Chapter 8, what do Jones's mother's friends take him to see?
(a) Professional wrestling.
(b) A X-rated movie.
(c) His first drag show.
(d) The musical Rent.

4. In Chapter 8, what does Jones notice sitting in a Ziploc back on his mother's nightstand at the hospital?
(a) The nightdress she always wore.
(b) Her watch.
(c) Her diary.
(d) Her phone.

5. In Chapter 4, why does Jones's grandmother slap him when he his a younger boy?
(a) For watching racy movies.
(b) For wearing a dress.
(c) For talking back to her after she tells him not to carry his books like a girl.
(d) For playing with her makeup.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, what does Jones think about all the time?

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

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

5. In Chapter 6, what does Jones imagine the man in the library doing after he leaves the library?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, how does Jones describe his mother's appearance and demeanor?

2. In Chapter 7, what are the circumstances under which Jones tries to kiss the first man he tries to kiss?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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