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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. What does Jones's mother say about his happiness in Chapter 11?
(a) If he is happy, she is happy.
(b) She can not be happy if he is gay.
(c) He can be happy, but his extended family will be miserable if he tells them the truth.
(d) He can not be happy if he is gay.

2. In Chapter 14, what question does Jones's friend ask him that he had not expected him to ask so early in the game?
(a) Whether he has ever had sex with a woman.
(b) When he came out to his family.
(c) Whether he will ever get married someday.
(d) What it feels like to have sex with a man.

3. In Chapter 11, what kinds of trees on campus remind Jones of his grandmother's house?
(a) Pear.
(b) Birch.
(c) Dogwood.
(d) Magnolia.

4. In Chapter 16, what strikes Jones as a common thread between gay, black, and male poets?
(a) Many have lived in New York City.
(b) Many are from the south like him.
(c) Many died young of AIDS, poverty, or some other tragedy.
(d) Many have been given numerous prestigious awards.

5. In Chapter 16, which poet who has recently died does Jones particularly admire?
(a) Lewis Smurl.
(b) John Baldwin.
(c) Reginald Shepherd.
(d) Bayard Rustin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, which friend of Jones's does he play a "game" with that involves answering questions honestly?

2. In Chapter 16, why does Jones feel he has to be so disciplined about his work?

3. In Chapter 16, what question begins to plague Jones about what happened New Year's Eve?

4. In Chapter 14, what scares Jones's friend so much that he panics?

5. Which author does Jones begin Part Three with a quote from?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, how do Jones's friends react when he tells them he has still not told his mother he is gay?

2. In Chapter 12, why do you think Jones tells the Botanist his name is Cody?

3. In Chapter 14, what happens in Dane's apartment that upsets Jones?

4. In Chapter 12, what is unusual about the Botanist's apartment that Jones notices quickly?

5. In Chapter 10, what is Jones's good-bye with his mother like when they part ways after he arrives at college?

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 11, how does Jones feel after he eventually tells his mother he is gay?

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