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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What detail of his personal background does Adam reveal after Toby accuses him of being coddled?
(a) He was bullied in school.
(b) He spent time in jail.
(c) He was very ill as a child.
(d) He was adopted.

2. What does Toby feel when Leo expresses an interest in reading his novel?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Panic.

3. On whom is the character of Morgan based?
(a) J. M. Coetzee.
(b) M. P. Shiel.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) S. M. Stirling.

4. Where do Henry, his sons, and Eric have dinner together?
(a) Peter Luger Steakhouse.
(b) Grimaldi's Restaurant.
(c) Shelsky's of Brooklyn.
(d) Chadwick's Restaurant.

5. What are the Young Men all doing in the play's prologue?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Posting selfies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Act Three, Scene Four, what book does Eric accuse Toby of pretending to have read?

3. Why does Jasper not come to the Nutcracker performance?

4. Where does Leo assume he acquired the HIV virus?

5. What is implied by the list of people and homes that opens Act Two, Scene Three?

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