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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 fact does Jasper surprise Henry with during their discussion of the AIDS epidemic?
(a) Members of marginalized communities still have a 50% chance of contracting HIV.
(b) George Bush implemented policies designed to slow the spread of AIDS in Africa.
(c) The FDA refused to fast-track development of HIV medications.
(d) The Reagan administration refused to take the AIDS epidemic seriously.

2. What does Leo do each day during the beginning of his summer trip with Toby?
(a) He works out with other men his age.
(b) He asks Toby when they can return to New York.
(c) He goes to the beach to read.
(d) He invents new cocktails to amuse Toby.

3. Where was Toby born?
(a) Hartford.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Decatur.

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

5. How many men does the caretaker tell Eric are buried at the farmhouse?
(a) About 100.
(b) About a 150.
(c) Just under 300.
(d) More than 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toby die?

2. What ideology does Henry tell Jason 2 his ideas about taxation fall into?

3. After meeting Henry, what is the main point Eric's friends try to make about his relationship with Henry?

4. Where is Cherry Grove?

5. Of the criticisms of Eric's character that Henry makes in Act One, which does Eric imply is also a flaw of Henry's?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what sense does Toby re-enact his relationship with Eric through his relationship with Leo?

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 Leo learn that he is HIV-positive?

6. In Part Two, Act One's flashback to Young Henry and Young Walter first encountering the farmhouse, how do the two men's reactions differ?

7. How did Henry's fear during the AIDS epidemic end up robbing him of his ability to truly love another man?

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

9. What does Henry's vague communication about Eric's belongings cause to happen at the farmhouse?

10. What does the farmhouse caretaker say is the reason that so many gay men died during the AIDS epidemic?

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