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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 15, what does Jones do for his attacker on New Year's Eve before leaving his apartment?
(a) Tries to give him a glass of water.
(b) Calls a number of a relative from the man's cell phone.
(c) Calls 911 to come for him.
(d) Covers him with a blanket.

2. Which author does Jones begin Part Three with a quote from?
(a) Roxanne Gay.
(b) Nikki Giovanni.
(c) Sadie Jones.
(d) Danez Smith.

3. In Chapter 12, what does Jones tell the Botanist when he leaves his house after their first encounter?
(a) To turn himself into the police.
(b) To delete his number.
(c) To meet him in the park that weekend.
(d) To call him again.

4. 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) What it feels like to have sex with a man.
(b) Whether he has ever had sex with a woman.
(c) Whether he will ever get married someday.
(d) When he came out to his family.

5. In Chapter 14, what does Jones start doing to his friend in his friend's car?
(a) Kissing him on the lips.
(b) Performing oral sex on him.
(c) Rubbing his shoulders.
(d) Rubbing his thighs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Four, what does Jones's mother write in her letter to him that she considered doing several times?

2. In Chapter 11, what kinds of trees on campus remind Jones of his grandmother's house?

3. In Chapter 12, why does Jones think the Botanist might think he is a bit dumb?

4. In Chapter 16, which poet who has recently died does Jones particularly admire?

5. In Chapter 15, what does Jones end up thinking about the man he was with on New Year's Eve?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 16, what does writing come to mean to Jones?

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 10, what happens to Jones at the first college party he attends?

8. In Chapter 11, what do the dogwood trees on campus remind Jones of from his childhood?

9. In Chapter 12, how does Jones feel after having sex with the Botanist, and why?

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

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