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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Adam characterize Elan in Act One, Scene Two?
(a) Elan is compassionate and vulnerable.
(b) Elan is aggressive and suspicious.
(c) Elan is arrogant and manipulative.
(d) Elan is shy and contemplative.

3. Where is the house where Toby has been staying when he calls Eric in Act One, Scene One?
(a) The Hamptons.
(b) Martha's Vineyard.
(c) The Finger Lakes.
(d) The Catskills.

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

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

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. Which statistician is mentioned frequently in Act Two?

3. What detail does Lopez offer that characterizes Paul as self-centered?

4. What is in the box that Toby refuses to look at and ultimately leaves behind in Eric's apartment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Henry offer Eric after Eric says that it feels to him as if the world is falling apart?

2. Why is the night of November 8, 2016 thematically significant?

3. Who is Tom Durrell, and how does he become significant in the Act Three, Scene One conversation between Toby and Adam?

4. During their argument in Act Two, Scene Three, what does Eric have to say about Toby's writing?

5. What is in the bag that Adam brings to Eric's apartment during the birthday party, and how does Toby explain the bag's contents?

6. How do their differing responses to the AIDS crisis illustrate something fundamentally different about Walter and Henry?

7. When Walter comes to the apartment for dinner, what similarity do he and Eric recognize in their relationships?

8. What is the symbolic significance of Adam giving Toby back his umbrella?

9. What does Toby accuse Morgan of in Act Three, Scene Four, and how does Morgan respond?

10. How does the proposed beginning of Young Man 1's story echo the opening of one of Morgan's books?

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