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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is important about the protagonist of the story?
(a) He is a philanthropist.
(b) He is gay.
(c) He is an artist.
(d) He is crippled.

2. Who is Morris?
(a) An attorney.
(b) A newspaper editor.
(c) Tex's assistant.
(d) The narrator's father.

3. Who is Tex's friend who visits from New York City?
(a) Mike.
(b) Phil.
(c) Edward.
(d) Lester.

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

5. How does the narrator feel after the sexual encounter in #47?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Exhilirated.
(c) Content.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can the narrator's father best be described?

2. When the narrator takes a walk at night with Maria, he realizes that __________________.

3. What is notable about Betts and Buddy?

4. "The Beautiful Room is Empty" takes place during the 1950s and 1960s in which country?

5. Which prep school does the narrator attend?

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