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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. On page 85, what specific expression does the text cite as having been appropriated from drag and ball culture?
(a) Serving realness.
(b) Yasss kween.
(c) Spill the tea.
(d) Throwing shade.

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

3. Which of Eric's friends reacts with disgust to the idea of having children?
(a) Walter.
(b) Tristan.
(c) Jason 1.
(d) Jasper.

4. Who is the author of The Inheritance?
(a) Matthew Lopez.
(b) Jeremy O. Harris.
(c) Robert O'Hara.
(d) Stephen Adly Guirgis.

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 a better man than Henry will ever be.
(b) Walter was neglected because of Henry's devotion to business.
(c) Walter did not love him as much as he loved Walter.
(d) Walter took care of Henry in more ways than Henry realized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Young Man 1 become in Act One, Scene Two?

2. What item of Adam's clothing does Toby criticize in Act One, Scene Two?

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

4. Under what condition does Henry offer to rent Eric an apartment?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the main point of the poem fragment "Hidden" that serves as the book's epigraph?

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

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

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

6. In Act Three, Scene Three, how does Toby's description of his life contrast with Morgan's commentary?

7. During Eric's birthday brunch, how does Jason 1 turn a nostalgic conversation about the past into a conversation about future goals?

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

9. When Adam reveals that he has been offered the Elan role in the Broadway production of Toby's play, how does Toby react, and why?

10. Which character does Young Man 10 become in Act One, and how does this make sense with his lines in the Prologue?

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