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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator's father's knowledge of the narrator's sexuality created ____________________.
(a) a bond of hatred and anger between the two.
(b) a validation of his life.
(c) a bond of love and acceptance.
(d) a curiosity to be quenched.

2. Why does the narrator join his father's fraternity at college?
(a) To date girls.
(b) To have social connections.
(c) To make lifelong friendships.
(d) Just to please his father.

3. In what year is the narrator at the school in #49?
(a) Senior.
(b) Freshman.
(c) Junior.
(d) Sophomore.

4. Which place did the narrator often visit across the street from the prep school?
(a) City park.
(b) Art Academy.
(c) Video arcade.
(d) Starbucks.

5. Tex believes that once a man ______________________________, he becomes uninteresting to other homosexuals.
(a) has sex with a woman.
(b) has been married.
(c) begins acting on his sexual desires for other men.
(d) becomes old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a part of his life that the narrator keeps separate?

2. How can Ivan best be described?

3. From what part of the country does Tex come?

4. What does Tex complain to the narrator about in Chapter 2?

5. What college does the narrator attend in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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