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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 expensive item does Kyle want to improve his appearance for which he is hesitant to ask his parents?

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

3. What reason does Kyle give for not reporting the harassing phone calls he has received to the school authorities?

4. Why does Kyle go to see Nelson in Chapter 17?

5. Why does Jason stop Kyle from sitting at the athletes table in the cafeteria in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Nelson meet Brick? What happens when Nelson meets Brick at a local coffee bar?

2. With whom does Nelson go out in this chapter of the novel? What is different about this date than some of Nelson's other social encounters?

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

4. How does Debra react when Jason tells her that he thinks he might be gay?

5. Why does Jason feel that his father's leaving is his fault? How does Jason's father compare to Kyle and Nelson's fathers in this novel?

6. What happens to Nelson that makes Jason feel the need to interfere? What does Jason do?

7. How does Kyle's father react to meeting Jason for the first time? How does this make Kyle feel?

8. How does Jason's father respond to Kyle and Nelson? How does Jason deal with his father's reaction?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Nelson in a hurry to have his first sexual experience? With whom would he have preferred to have it? With whom does Nelson have his first experience? How does Nelson feel about this encounter? For what reason? How does Kyle react to what Nelson has done? Why is Nelson's behavior so dangerous? Would Nelson have behaved in a similar fashion if he were straight? Explain. Why is Kyle reluctant to have a sexual encounter with Nelson? How does Nelson feel about that? Does Kyle's reluctance add to Nelson's emotional state and reckless behaviors?

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

How does Nelson feel about his father? How involved in his life is Nelson's father? Why does Nelson not appreciate the Christmas gift his father sends to him? Why does Nelson get angry with his father when they speak on the phone? Why does Nelson's father fail to show up to take him to dinner? How does his relationship with his father impact Nelson's emotional state? How does it impact Nelson's deep desire to be loved? How does Nelson's father show that he is not as supportive of Nelson's sexuality as Nelson's mother?

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