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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 is the name of the farmhouse's caretaker?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Laura.
(c) June.
(d) Margaret.

2. What causes Adam to miss his performance?
(a) He decides to help Leo instead of staying to perform.
(b) He is too disgusted with Toby to continue performing his play.
(c) He cannot focus on anything until he gets himself checked for HIV.
(d) He realizes that he needs to find out where Toby has gone.

3. When Young Henry and Young Walter replay their first meeting in Act Two, Scene Two, what is the rhetorical function of the detail about the movie E.T.?
(a) It reminds the audience that Henry has always been a devoted father.
(b) It reveals a softer, kinder side of Henry's character.
(c) It demonstrates how rattled Henry is by his attraction to Walter.
(d) It offers insight into why Henry always has the upper hand in his relationships.

4. What characteristic of the various owners of the farmhouse is most emphasized in the Prologue to Part Two?
(a) Their intense love of family.
(b) Their violent history.
(c) Their contributions to the nation.
(d) Their wealth and privilege.

5. What does Toby feel when Leo expresses an interest in reading his novel?
(a) Panic.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symptoms of meth use has Leo developed by Act Two, Scene Four?

2. What is in the envelope that Eric leaves on the table when he leaves the bar after talking to Toby?

3. What does Eric realize when Leo tells him about Toby choosing books for him?

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

5. In Act Two, Scene Two, what does Henry identify as the moment he stopped loving Walter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What belief does Eric express in an attempt to resolve the political disagreement between Henry and his friends?

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

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. Who was Edward Carpenter, and how did he inspire Maurice?

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

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

10. What happens as soon as Toby gets back to his apartment after he visits his agent?

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