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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 does Leo call his first novel?
(a) The Farmhouse.
(b) Walter's Children.
(c) The Inheritance.
(d) Surviving Toby Darling.

2. During the scene at the Free Clinic, what is revealed about how Leo has changed because of his relationship with Toby?
(a) He is deeply cynical about love.
(b) He is now homeless.
(c) He is now addicted to meth.
(d) He is desperate for others' approval.

3. When the caretaker says, on page 281, "You've seen them," what is it implied she is referring to?
(a) The ghosts.
(b) Henry's sons.
(c) The wildflowers.
(d) The graves.

4. What does Eric realize when Leo tells him about Toby choosing books for him?
(a) Toby was recreating the literary education that Eric tried to give Toby.
(b) Toby was trying to control Leo the way he controlled Eric.
(c) Toby finally read the books that he previously just pretended to have read.
(d) Toby was trying to make Leo over into his image of Adam.

5. What does Leo realize about Toby when he gets to Toby's theater?
(a) Toby was using Leo as a substitute for Eric.
(b) Toby does not really understand what love is.
(c) Toby was using Leo as a substitute for Adam.
(d) Toby is not the man he pretends to be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toby discover that Leo has been writing?

2. To whom is Jasper referring when he quizzes Henry about giving money to a certain political candidate (166)?

3. What is one of the most significant consequences of Henry and Walter's first sexual encounter?

4. How does Henry defend his alliance with a political party known not to support gay rights?

5. What regret does Toby's play make Eric feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Toby and Leo are reunited, how does Toby initially react to Leo's desperate situation, and what changes Toby's attitude?

2. How does Toby's experience at the opening of his play relate to the scene he makes at Eric's wedding?

3. What is the subtext of Adam and Toby's argument about the new line Toby has added to the play?

4. When Leo wakes up next to the stranger in Act Two, Scene Four, what does he choose to steal from the man, and why?

5. How does Toby's agent react to his new play?

6. How does Leo react when he first sees Toby at the farmhouse?

7. What is the "faux-art" that Tucker makes?

8. What admission about Leo does Henry make, and why does Eric find it so upsetting?

9. What memory is Toby recreating when he pressures Leo into attending the parties during their summer trip, and how does the reader know this?

10. What causes Leo to think of HIV as "A bitter inheritance," and what is the significance of this diction (239)?

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