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

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

3. What does Eric reveal and then try to take back while he and Toby are having sex?
(a) He wants to see other people.
(b) He wants to get married.
(c) They might have to move.
(d) They are both getting older.

4. When they are all at dinner together, what conclusion do Charles and Paul reach about their father and Eric?
(a) Eric is trying to con their father the way he conned Walter.
(b) Henry is romantically interested in Eric.
(c) Eric is helping to alleviate their father's grief over Walter.
(d) Henry is starting to see Eric as another son.

5. After Toby's play opens, who compares him to famous playwrights like Albee and O'Neill?
(a) The critics.
(b) Toby.
(c) Eric.
(d) Morgan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Inheritance?

2. What character does Young Man 7 ridicule Toby for comparing his protagonist to?

3. What are the Young Men all doing in the play's prologue?

4. What is the main feeling that Walter comes away with from the brunch conversation?

5. In Act Three, Scene Five, what is Eric most concerned about when Paul describes the actions of the tenant at the farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What medication is Tristan taking, and why is it brought up in the context of positive changes for the gay community?

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

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

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

5. How does Eric come to live in such a nice apartment, and what issue is he facing with this apartment in Act One?

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

7. In the hallway after brunch, when Eric tries to be self-deprecating after Walter compliments him, how does Walter respond?

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

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

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

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