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

2. In Chapter 6, what does Jones imagine the man in the library doing after he leaves the library?
(a) Reading a book in the library.
(b) Going home to a wife and family.
(c) Making dinner.
(d) Going to work.

3. In Chapter 9, what symptoms cause Jones's mother to go to the hospital?
(a) She has the worst headache of her life.
(b) She can not move her legs.
(c) She is short of breath and had collapsed earlier after work in the parking lot.
(d) She has terrible abdominal pain.

4. In Chapter 8, what is standing in the way of Jones attending the university he wants to attend?
(a) He does not want to fly on a plane to get there.
(b) He and his mother can not afford the tuition, even with financial aid.
(c) His grandmother has forbidden him to go to college.
(d) He has not taken the appropriate entry exams to apply to the university.

5. What do most of the books Jones finds about homosexuality as a young boy also include information about?
(a) Recommended novels for further reading.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Religion.
(d) Conversion therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what word does Jones's grandmother use to describe him in a negative way?

2. Who is one character from Greek mythology that Jones experiments writing in the voice of?

3. In Chapter 5, as Jones gets older, what does he start to notice more?

4. In Chapter 8, who does Jones go to New York City with when he is a child?

5. In Chapter 8, what do Jones's mother's friends take him to see?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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