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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) An openly gay politician.
(c) A drag queen.
(d) A black ballroom icon.

2. What topic does Toby avoid talking about, even with Eric?
(a) His writing.
(b) His ambitions.
(c) His other lovers.
(d) His past.

3. What famous location did Walter ask directions to as soon as he arrived in New York?
(a) The Stonewall Inn.
(b) Times Square.
(c) Carnegie Hall.
(d) Wall Street.

4. While Eric and Toby are having sex, what unromantic topic does Toby bring up?
(a) Whether the month's mortgage has been paid.
(b) A difficult scene he is writing.
(c) A new couch that he wants to buy.
(d) Getting Chinese food for dinner.

5. How does Jasper respond to Eric's request about work?
(a) He says he is disappointed, but he understands.
(b) He tries to undermine Eric's confidence.
(c) He tries to make Eric feel guilty.
(d) He encourages Eric to put himself first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Eric work for?

2. What news does Eric wake up to on his thirty-fourth birthday?

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

4. What singer and actress does Jasper bring up as an example of "camp"?

5. Where does Adam's bathhouse story take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about Jason 2's question to Walter about whether Walter worries about what will happen if Henry dies first?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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