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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. What causes the chaos in Jason's home during the Christmas break as described in Chapter 16?

2. To what school does Jason receive a scholarship?

3. For what reason does Jason tell Debra he can no longer be with her?

4. Who is Dane?

5. What argument does Ms. MacTrough give for the approval of the GSA?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nelson's father say to Nelson on the phone? What does this conversation suggest about Nelson's relationship with his father?

2. How does Corey react to the news that Jason is gay? What advice does he give Jason?

3. How do Kyle's parents respond to a harassing phone call placed to their home in response to Kyle's involvement in the forming of a GSA club at school? How does this inspire Kyle to stand up for himself in an unusual way?

4. Who approaches Jason in the final chapter of the book? For what reason?

5. What does Kyle say when he kisses Jason? How does Jason respond?

6. Why does Nelson hook up with Blake at a Rainbow Youth party? What happens?

7. How does Kyle react to Nelson's confession of an unprotected sexual encounter? How does this situation impact Kyle?

8. How does Nelson's mother respond to the information that Nelson had an unprotected sexual encounter? What impact does her response have on Nelson?

9. How does Kyle's father react to the fight in which Kyle has recently been involved? Why does this surprise and please Kyle?

10. How does Nelson feel when his father fails to pick him up for their pre-arranged dinner plans?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Gay-Straight Alliance? Why do Nelson and Kyle want to start a branch of the club in their school? What do they hope to do with this club? Why is the principal hesitant to allow the club at the high school? Is the principal biased against Nelson and Kyle, or are there other reasons for his actions? What does Nelson talk about at the school board meeting when he goes to argue for the club? How does this argument impact the decision of the school board? How do most of the kids at school react to the club? How might you react to such a club at your school?

Essay Topic 2

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

1) Jason and Debra

2) Jason and Kyle

3) Kyle and his father.

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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