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

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

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

4. 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 newly suspicious of Eric's motives.
(d) He seems distracted and less interested in Eric.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Walter want Eric to go with him on the evening of Eric's birthday?

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

3. What commentary does Morgan offer about the introduction of Leo's character?

4. Which of Morgan's books do the Young Men especially admire?

5. What poem does Leo read aloud to Toby?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. How does Toby embarrass himself when he is staying at Henry Wilcox's house?

6. In what sense does Adam feel he might have played a part in Eric and Toby's breakup?

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

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

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. What secret does Morgan say Eric is keeping from everyone, and what is Morgan's belief about this secret?

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