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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kyle's mother find on the floor of Kyle's room in Chapter 8?
(a) A gay man's magazine.
(b) A failing math test.
(c) The yearbook.
(d) Kyle's cellphone.

2. Where do Jason and Debra park after the dance in Chapter 7?
(a) In a deserted parking lot.
(b) A deserted country road.
(c) The golf course.
(d) Outside her house.

3. What question does Kyle fail to answer in the parking lot after school when he and Nelson are approached by a small group of people?
(a) Whether he wants to join the GSA.
(b) Whether he is gay.
(c) Whether he is a member of the Rainbow Youth.
(d) Whether he is Nelson's friend.

4. Who gives Jason the item he is wearing in Chapter 4 of which his father disapproves?
(a) Kyle.
(b) Corey.
(c) His mother.
(d) Debra.

5. Who is Fenner Farley?
(a) The school principal.
(b) Nelson's father.
(c) A religious student at the high school.
(d) A teacher at the school.

6. Why does Nelson go to Shea's at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) To complain about Jason.
(b) To see her new dog.
(c) To get a haircut.
(d) To talk about college applications.

7. Who wakes Kyle the next morning, in Chapter 8?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Jason.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

8. What did Jason think would happen if someone saw him holding hands with Kyle in the movie theater?
(a) His father would find out and kill him.
(b) He would be humiliated.
(c) He would be arrested.
(d) Everyone would learn he is gay.

9. What does Kyle give Nelson in Chapter 3?
(a) A new phone.
(b) A new earring.
(c) His sweatshirt.
(d) His umbrella.

10. What does Nelson think Kyle smells of most of the time?
(a) Fish.
(b) Chlorine from the pool.
(c) Sweat.
(d) Cologne.

11. What does the principal ask Nelson to do about his behavior?
(a) Act normal.
(b) Stop bullying people.
(c) Become more social.
(d) Stop instigating fights.

12. Why is Kyle unsure about keeping the magazine at his house?
(a) His mother might see it.
(b) He might lose it.
(c) He is afraid his father might find it.
(d) He does not feel comfortable looking at it.

13. Why do the kids at school dislike Nelson?
(a) He is unattractive.
(b) He is openly gay and flamboyant in his personality.
(c) He is a bully.
(d) He is a loner.

14. What does Kyle's father show him when he gets home in Chapter 2?
(a) Tickets to an amusement park.
(b) Tickets to the Redskins game the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
(c) Tickets to the circus.
(d) Tickets to Cats.

15. How many narrators are there in this novel?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kyle wish Nelson would not hang around him at lunch the Monday after the Rainbow Youth meeting?

2. What college is thought to have a great lesbian community, as discussed in Chapter 6?

3. What does Jason spend most of the movie, in Chapter 4, thinking about?

4. Who meets Nelson and Kyle in the parking lot after school in Chapter 5?

5. Why does Jason think his friends would not be supportive if he came out as gay to them?

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