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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. Ralph is actually discriminated against in school because he is ____________, which is part of the reason he speaks up in class too.
(a) Colored.
(b) Blind.
(c) A slave.
(d) Crippled.

2. Leo insists that being a ____________ major makes him an expert on homosexuality, though he has never been tempted.
(a) Science.
(b) Math.
(c) Theater.
(d) Literature.

3. Ralph takes offense to a teacher's presentation on ____________ in his history class.
(a) Slavery.
(b) Manifest Destiny.
(c) Civil War.
(d) Louisiana Purchase.

4. ________ demands that society take vengeance on the murderer when Penny is found murdered.
(a) Thomas.
(b) Ray.
(c) Dominick.
(d) Ma.

5. Which of Dominick's lovers could be categorized as being shyer than another of Dominick's lovers?
(a) Ignazia.
(b) Marie.
(c) Joy.
(d) Dessa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is always noting the different venial and mortal sins which causes Dominick to worry about his future?

2. Whenever Dominick sees ______________, thoughts overtake him about what might have been for Angela.

3. What is the subject that Dominick teaches when he is a teacher as his profession?

4. What does Dessa declare is a symptom of Dominick's toxic anger and then decides to leave him?

5. __________ says that Ray beats them up and rapes Ma in front of the twins to teach them about the real world.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does seeing young dance students trigger in Dominick when he goes to see Patel and Sheffer?

2. What does Dominick grow impatient with when he is talking with his brother a day before the amputation?

3. What are the therapy techniques which Dominick objects to, as they are causing one person in his life to be at blame?

4. What happens when Dominick takes Thomas to the hospital after his amputation during the beginning of the book?

5. What is the news about the case that Dominick learns when he is talking with Patel and listening to Thomas' tapes?

6. What is the long range goal of Patel when she is working with Thomas, a goal she tells Dominick about?

7. What does Dominick regret about the summer of 1969 when he is talking with Thomas about sex and marijuana?

8. Why does Thomas believe that Dominick has been singled out in his life, according to the therapy tape?

9. What happens which makes Dominick feel moved during his conversation and his visit with Leo?

10. What is the story that Dominick maintains when the police question him and Leo about Dell?

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