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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 16, what does Jones's mother insist upon his doing?
(a) Sending money to his grandmother.
(b) Contacting his father once and for all.
(c) Coming to Memphis to help celebrate his grandmother's birthday.
(d) Cooking for himself.

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

3. In Chapter 16, how does Jones feel about his mother's place in their family?
(a) She drove everyone apart.
(b) She kept everyone together.
(c) She was the one everyone wanted to make proud.
(d) She was the one everyone always worried about.

4. 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 will not make it home.
(c) You're already dead.
(d) You are sick and demented.

5. What does Jones do with the man he leaves the New Year's Eve party with that makes other party-goers laugh?
(a) He gives the man his own shirt.
(b) He drinks shots with him.
(c) He sits on the edge of the bed with him right after the man obviously had sex with a woman who has just left the bedroom.
(d) He performs stand-up comedy with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what kinds of things does the Botanist say during sex with Jones that disturbs Jones?

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

3. In Chapter 16, why is Jones hesitant to do what his mother asks of him?

4. In Chapter 16, where does Jones live?

5. In Chapter 14, what question does Jones's friend ask him that he had not expected him to ask so early in the game?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, how does Jones dress for his arrival at college, and why does he soon regret his choice?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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