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

2. What is Toby's response to the successful opening of his play?
(a) He announces that he is starting his second novel.
(b) He flies to L.A. to fire his agent and get a new one.
(c) He tells Eric to book the fanciest wedding venue in New York.
(d) He starts looking for a permanent place to live in Chicago.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied by Toby's dialogue while Adam is in the shower in Act One, Scene Two?

2. What famous location did Walter ask directions to as soon as he arrived in New York?

3. What lie about his life does Toby tell Eric when he comes over to collect his things from Eric's apartment?

4. Whose music does Eric play for his friends at his birthday party in Act One, Scene Two?

5. What does Adam seem to feel about Eric and Toby's breakup?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Leo leaves Toby's apartment, what surprising information does Young Man 1 reveal, and how do Morgan and Toby react?

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

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

4. What is Adam's purpose in telling his story about the bathhouse?

5. At dinner with Henry and his sons, what innocent joke does Eric make and why does it so alarm Paul and Charles?

6. How do Charles and Paul's attitudes in the hallway after Eric's brunch foreshadow their actions at the end of Act Two?

7. What is at the heart of Eric's nostalgia for the gay community's past?

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

9. How does the opening of Act Two foreshadow trouble in Eric and Toby's relationship?

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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