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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Henry arrive with during Eric and Toby's fight?
(a) He and Water have decided to get married.
(b) Walter has died.
(c) He intends to buy the apartment building.
(d) He will finance Toby's Broadway debut.

2. On page 109, what phrase does Toby say he is going to have engraved on his tombstone?
(a) "Gifted Playwright."
(b) "Bring me Whiskey."
(c) "Oh Toby."
(d) "So Close."

3. How does Walter's attitude seem to change in the weeks after Eric's birthday?
(a) He is more openly concerned about Eric's relationship with Toby.
(b) He becomes excessively polite and cautious around Eric.
(c) He seems distracted and less interested in Eric.
(d) He seems newly suspicious of Eric's motives.

4. Which statistician is mentioned frequently in Act Two?
(a) Jake Porway.
(b) David Blackwell.
(c) Nate Silver.
(d) Susan Murphy.

5. What does Toby believe the fight with Eric was really about?
(a) Walter.
(b) His play.
(c) Adam.
(d) The apartment.

6. What starts the Act Two, Scene Three fight between Eric and Toby?
(a) Toby discovers that they are losing the apartment.
(b) Eric tells Toby that he hates Toby's play.
(c) Toby tells Eric that he is moving to Chicago.
(d) Eric discovers that Toby slept with Adam.

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

8. What is the primary rhetorical function of the list of public and governmental actions responding to the AIDS epidemic?
(a) It shows how much discrimination gay men suffered at this time.
(b) It shows how determined people were to find a cure.
(c) It shows how poorly informed people were about sexually transmitted diseases.
(d) It shows the financial impact of the epidemic on American society.

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

10. When Adam invites Toby into his apartment for a drink, what covert agenda is revealed in his dialogue?
(a) He is looking for someone to edit his novel manuscript.
(b) He wants a sexual relationship with Toby.
(c) He is interested in playing the lead in Toby's play.
(d) He wants to ask questions about the meaning of Toby's book.

11. How long does Toby claim to have been in love with Adam?
(a) Since the night Adam told him the bathhouse story.
(b) Since the night Adam arrived at Eric's apartment with the bag of books.
(c) Since the first time he saw Adam playing Elan.
(d) Since the night he walked Adam home in the rain.

12. Why does Henry leave Eric at the farmhouse and drive away?
(a) He wants Eric to have a moment alone with Walter's memory.
(b) He needs to go pick up the key from the caretaker.
(c) He finds it too painful to be at the farmhouse himself.
(d) He and Eric are fighting about respecting Walter's wishes.

13. Where does Adam's bathhouse story take place?
(a) Prague.
(b) Paris.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Berlin.

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

15. In Act Three, Scene Four, what book does Eric accuse Toby of pretending to have read?
(a) Infinite Jest.
(b) Finnegans Wake.
(c) Gravity's Rainbow.
(d) War and Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Eric and Toby are having sex, what unromantic topic does Toby bring up?

2. When they are all at dinner together, what conclusion do Charles and Paul reach about their father and Eric?

3. What does the dialogue at the end of Act One, Scene Two demonstrate?

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

5. What poem does Leo read aloud to Toby?

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