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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What foreign language does the narrator study?
(a) Chinese.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Russian.

2. With whom is Tex intimately involved?
(a) His landlord.
(b) His brother-in-law.
(c) His old girlfriend.
(d) A married man.

3. What does the narrator wonder as he observes Tex and Morris?
(a) how hard it must be to live as gay men in society.
(b) If he will be the sort of homosexual they are.
(c) when they became a couple.
(d) whether he will find someone to love.

4. What is a powerful negative force in the narrator's life?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Doing drugs.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Shame.

5. Hunton makes disparaging remarks about the narrator's __________________.
(a) clothes.
(b) family.
(c) hair.
(d) penis.

6. Who had introduced the narrator to Hunton?
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) Another man named Hunton.
(c) The narrator's guidance counselor.
(d) The narrator's Chinese instructor.

7. Who was abusive to Annie and her brother?
(a) Their mother.
(b) Their priest.
(c) Their uncle.
(d) Their father.

8. How can Morris best be described?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Angry.
(c) Reserved.
(d) Flamboyant.

9. The relationship between Tex and Morris is sometimes _________________.
(a) tense.
(b) angry.
(c) pitiful.
(d) funny.

10. What college does the narrator attend in Chapter 3?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Georgia Tech.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) The Ohio State University.

11. The psychiatrist convinces the narrator that much of the narrator's life is defined by ______________________.
(a) his childhood abuse.
(b) his insecurities.
(c) his feelings about sex.
(d) his religious beliefs.

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

13. What is the nature of the narrator's time with the psychiatrist?
(a) For the narrator to get over his broken heart.
(b) To manage the narrator's fear of heights.
(c) For the narrator to become heterosexual.
(d) To talk about the father issues the narrator has.

14. What type of career does the narrator hope to establish?
(a) Artist.
(b) Athlete.
(c) Writer.
(d) Therapist.

15. In Chapter 2, the narrator is in his last year of ___________________.
(a) grad school.
(b) junior high.
(c) boarding school.
(d) college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the person in #73 visits the narrator at the end of the school year?

2. Why does the narrator join his father's fraternity at college?

3. Who introduces the narrator to oral and anal sex?

4. Which place did the narrator often visit across the street from the prep school?

5. Tex refers to himself as the narrator's __________________.

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