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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 19, what is one way Jones has of dealing with the trauma he experienced on New Year's Eve?
(a) He goes for a swim every morning to clear his head.
(b) He goes for long walks in nature.
(c) He tells his grandmother about it.
(d) He writes about it.

2. In Chapter 16, where does Jones live?
(a) Jersey City, New Jersey.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Memphis.

3. Which student was brutally beaten, raped, and killed at the university Jones attends?
(a) Joyce Willard.
(b) Melinda Carter.
(c) Jennifer James.
(d) Melissa "Katie" Autry.

4. In Chapter 11, what does Jones tell his friends about his relationship with his mother that shocks many of them?
(a) His mother does not realize he has been in contact with his father.
(b) He has not yet come out to his mother.
(c) His mother thinks he is a Catholic.
(d) His mother does not know how much he dislikes Buddhism.

5. In Chapter 15, what does the man Jones is with on New Year's Eve keep repeating to Jones?
(a) You are mine now.
(b) You're already dead.
(c) You are sick and demented.
(d) You will not make it home.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what strikes Jones as a common thread between gay, black, and male poets?

2. What does the Botanist have hanging from his lamps?

3. In Chapter 16, what does Jones start to wish he had as a result of his New Year's Eve experience?

4. What does Jones's mother say about his happiness in Chapter 11?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Jones do for the first time at a college party?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 15, how does Jones meet Daniel?

2. In Part Four, what does Jones's mother write to him in her letter from 2007?

3. In Chapter 13, what does Jones's mother do that alarms him?

4. In Chapter 17, what does Jones's mother make it clear she wants him to do and how does it turn out?

5. In Chapter 14, what happens that prompts Dane to panic when he and Jones are engaged in sexual activity?

6. In Chapter 14, what is the purpose of Jones's Question Game with Dane?

7. In Chapter 15, how does Jones end up feeling about Daniel just before Jones flees from Daniel's apartment?

8. In Chapter 13, why does Jones keep seeing the Botanist?

9. In Chapter 17, why does Jones strive to stay so disciplined with his writing work?

10. In Chapter 16, what does Jones think about what he would do if anyone ever treated him as Daniel once had?

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