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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Walter, what is Henry's attitude toward their relationship?
(a) Henry takes their relationship for granted.
(b) Henry sees the relationship too idealistically.
(c) Henry sees it as a transaction.
(d) Henry willingly gives more than he takes.

2. When Henry learns of Eric's housing situation, what does he offer to do?
(a) Let Eric move in with him.
(b) Give Eric the farmhouse.
(c) Find Eric a broker to work with.
(d) Buy Eric's apartment and let him stay in it.

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

4. What surprises Toby about Adam's apartment?
(a) It is where Henry used to live.
(b) It is large and expensive.
(c) It belongs to Adam's parents.
(d) It is on the 11th floor.

5. When Henry and Eric talk in Act Three, Scene Two, what does Henry say he is beginning to realize about Walter?
(a) Walter was neglected because of Henry's devotion to business.
(b) Walter did not love him as much as he loved Walter.
(c) Walter took care of Henry in more ways than Henry realized.
(d) Walter was a better man than Henry will ever be.

6. What action of Walter's surprises the group of friends and makes them uncomfortable?
(a) He critiques their table manners.
(b) He says grace before they eat.
(c) He refuses any alcohol.
(d) He smokes a cigarette.

7. On what day of the year does Toby first see Leo's ad and call him?
(a) Christmas Day.
(b) Christmas Eve.
(c) New Year's Eve.
(d) New Year's Day.

8. What makes Henry say that Eric is "vivid" (120)?
(a) Eric's enthusiastic description of everything there is to do in New York in the fall.
(b) Eric's wistful explanation of everything that he loved and respected about Walter.
(c) Eric's sarcastic joke about looking for a place to live in the Bronx in 1977.
(d) Eric's detailed recounting of his final fight with Toby.

9. What is Walter's attitude as Jason 2 shows him wedding photos?
(a) Irritated and uncivil.
(b) Amused and curious.
(c) Polite but not really interested.
(d) Attentive but a little envious.

10. Which item in Adam's shopping bag is a callback to the poem that serves as the play's epigraph?
(a) Call Me By Your Name.
(b) Giovanni's Room.
(c) The Swimming-Pool Library.
(d) The Cavafy collection.

11. In Act Three, Scene Three, where is Toby living?
(a) Gramercy Park.
(b) Tribeca.
(c) SoHo.
(d) Hell's Kitchen.

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

13. What does Eric point to as the primary way culture is transmitted?
(a) School.
(b) Family.
(c) Stories.
(d) Museums.

14. In Act Two, Scene One, what does Adam say that first makes Toby express a desire to leave Adam's apartment?
(a) Adam propositions Toby for sex.
(b) Adam asks for Toby's agent's phone number.
(c) Adam tells Toby that he loves him.
(d) Adam suggests a revision to Elan's lines.

15. Who is Harvey Milk?
(a) A drag queen.
(b) The founder of an AIDS charity.
(c) A black ballroom icon.
(d) An openly gay politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Henry, his sons, and Eric have dinner together?

2. Where does Henry ask Eric to come and stay with him for several months?

3. On page 109, what phrase does Toby say he is going to have engraved on his tombstone?

4. Whom is it implied that Leo looks like?

5. In Act Three, Scene Two, what gift does Henry bring Eric?

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