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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part One, Act Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem does Leo read aloud to Toby?
(a) "Going Downhill on a Bicycle."
(b) "Youth and Age."
(c) "A Bequest of His Heart."
(d) "My Grief on the Sea."

2. What commentary does Morgan offer about the introduction of Leo's character?
(a) He is the play's first sex worker.
(b) He is a foil for Eric's character.
(c) He will cause Toby's downfall.
(d) He is the play's first poor character.

3. What famous location did Walter ask directions to as soon as he arrived in New York?
(a) Carnegie Hall.
(b) Times Square.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) The Stonewall Inn.

4. Which of Morgan's books do the Young Men especially admire?
(a) Maurice.
(b) A Passage to India.
(c) A Room with a View.
(d) Howards End.

5. When they are all at dinner together, what conclusion do Charles and Paul reach about their father and Eric?
(a) Henry is romantically interested in Eric.
(b) Eric is trying to con their father the way he conned Walter.
(c) Henry is starting to see Eric as another son.
(d) Eric is helping to alleviate their father's grief over Walter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which item in Adam's shopping bag is a callback to the poem that serves as the play's epigraph?

2. What is Toby's play called?

3. In Act Three, Scene Five, what is Eric most concerned about when Paul describes the actions of the tenant at the farmhouse?

4. What singer and actress does Jasper bring up as an example of "camp"?

5. What does the description of Eric's time in Paris emphasize?

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