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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 11, what does Jones use the tree branches in his grandmother's backyard for as a child?
(a) To use as a baseball bat.
(b) To swing with his cat from.
(c) To use as imaginary antlers.
(d) As part of the show he imagines himself putting on.

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 16, why does Jones set the schedule he does for himself?
(a) So he can do his Buddhist chanting.
(b) So he can get up and exercise.
(c) So he can talk with his mother every day.
(d) So he can write for at least an hour every morning.

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

5. Where is the university Jones attends in Chapter 10 located?
(a) Bowling Green, Kentucky.
(b) New York City.
(c) Huston, Texas.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what cocktail does the Botanist make Jones?

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

3. In Chapter 14, what is the name of the man Jones meets at the New Year's Eve party and who changes his life?

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

5. What does the Botanist have many of in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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