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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. Whose working conditions does Eric chide Henry over as Henry prepares to leave for his business trip?
(a) Their building's doormen.
(b) Henry's sons.
(c) Henry's pilot and flight crew.
(d) Henry's assistant.

2. Who is on the beach with Leo in the opening of Part Two, Act Two?
(a) Morgan.
(b) Toby.
(c) Eric.
(d) Adam.

3. What is Toby's reaction after Leo's anger during their reunion?
(a) He gets drunk.
(b) He offers Leo money.
(c) He begs Leo to forgive him.
(d) He goes for a drive.

4. What do the play's final lines focus on?
(a) Eric's kindness.
(b) Walter's legacy.
(c) Leo's ambitions.
(d) Henry's happiness.

5. What is implied by Toby's page 284 line "Holy shit, it's all our things. Your things"?
(a) Toby wants to make it clear to Eric that he has moved on from their relationship.
(b) Toby hopes that Eric's marriage is failing and that he and Eric can get back together.
(c) At some level, Toby still sees himself and Eric as a couple.
(d) Just as Eric feared, Toby was always more interested in Eric's money than in Eric.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Eric and Leo drive to the farmhouse, what is Eric feeling anxious about?

2. What is implied about the reason Leo is in such a hurry when he crashes into Toby outside the Strand?

3. Where is Cherry Grove?

4. What is Toby's follow-up play called?

5. What impacts Toby the most of all of the things he finds in the box of his parents' things?

Short Essay Questions

1. What revelations about Leo's childhood occur in Act Two, Scene Four?

2. How did the move to a new state and new school impact Toby's self-image, and why?

3. What is ironic about Henry's comments about giving the farmhouse to Walter during the reenacted scene between Young Henry and Young Walter in Act Two, Scene Two?

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

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

7. What points about money and status are made in the scene between Eric, Leo, and the two doormen outside Toby's apartment building?

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

9. How does Leo learn that he is HIV-positive?

10. After Eric's friends leave Henry's townhouse, what does Eric ask Henry about the rest of the evening, and what is consequently revealed about Henry's intentions for their marriage?

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