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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Part One, Prologue and Act One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 53, what does Young Man 1 say "upended" Eric's life?
(a) Adam getting the lead in Toby's play.
(b) The prospect of being evicted.
(c) Toby leaving for Chicago.
(d) Eric running into Walter.

2. What college did Adam, Eric, and Jasper all attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Barnard.

3. Who is the author of The Inheritance?
(a) Stephen Adly Guirgis.
(b) Robert O'Hara.
(c) Jeremy O. Harris.
(d) Matthew Lopez.

4. Whom does Young Man 1 become in Act One, Scene Two?
(a) Eric.
(b) Tristan.
(c) Adam.
(d) Toby.

5. While Eric and Toby are having sex, what unromantic topic does Toby bring up?
(a) A new couch that he wants to buy.
(b) Getting Chinese food for dinner.
(c) A difficult scene he is writing.
(d) Whether the month's mortgage has been paid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose music does Eric play for his friends at his birthday party in Act One, Scene Two?

2. What is the primary rhetorical function of the list of public and governmental actions responding to the AIDS epidemic?

3. According to Walter, what is Henry's attitude toward their relationship?

4. What does Eric reveal and then try to take back while he and Toby are having sex?

5. What is the name of the protagonist of Toby's book?

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