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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ms. MacTrough?

2. What does Kyle say makes him feel like an alien?

3. When doers Kyle first realize he is different from other boys his age?

4. Who is Caitlin?

5. What does Kyle say is the cause of his sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jason feel when his friends joke about Nelson and other homosexuals at their school? What does he do?

2. Why does Nelson become annoyed with Kyle when all he wants to talk about is Jason?

3. How do Nelson and Kyle become friends?

4. What sport does Jason play? Why does Jason think that playing this sport and having a steady girlfriend makes it impossible for him to be gay?

5. What magazine does Nelson give to Kyle? How does Kyle's mother happen to see it?

6. Why does Nelson take a picture of Kyle with his Polaroid camera? How does Nelson feel about Kyle?

7. How does Jason respond after the homecoming dance when Debra tries to seduce him? What does he tell her?

8. What is a Gay-Straight Alliance? What is its purpose?

9. What is one of the names that Jason's father often calls him? How does this impact Jason?

10. Why do Nelson and Kyle want to begin a Gay-Straight Alliance at their high school? Who opposes the idea?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following relationships in detail, using quotes from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Nelson and Kyle

2) Nelson and Jason

3) Jason and Corey

Essay Topic 2

Who is Jason? Why does he attend the Rainbow Youth meeting in the first chapter of the book? What does Jason think he will get out of the meeting? Does Jason think he is gay? Why does Jason keep insisting to himself that he might be bisexual, but not gay? What is the difference? Why is this difference important to Jason? How does Jason react when he sees two boys from school at the meeting? Why is Jason unhappy for these boys to see him? What does Jason think will happen if these boys tell anyone what they saw?

Essay Topic 3

What is HIV? How is it spread? Why does Nelson have an unprotected encounter with an older man? Why does he panic when he realizes it was unprotected? What danger does this encounter pose for Nelson? How does Nelson feel about people who test positive for HIV? How does Nelson react when he learns that Jeremy is HIV positive? Does this change Nelson's opinion of those with HIV? Is HIV a reality of being gay? How do most people deal with it? How does Nelson choose to deal with it?

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