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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the woman with whom Lou has a relationship during this time?
(a) Malinda.
(b) Misty.
(c) Desiree.
(d) Evelyn.

2. The narrator has been accepted into a graduate program at what university?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Duke.
(d) Stanford.

3. The narrator can see his past behavior as a manifestation of ______________ rather than identity.
(a) greed.
(b) shock.
(c) love.
(d) shame.

4. The narrator begins to understand that ___________________.
(a) he will always be a freak.
(b) his father admires him.
(c) he is not alone.
(d) his mother does not love him.

5. What do the narrator's parents consider a normal life for their son?
(a) Being heterosexual.
(b) Being whoever he wants to be.
(c) Being an artist.
(d) Being a doctor.

6. What does the narrator realize about himself?
(a) He is wasting his life.
(b) He is artistic.
(c) He wants to live by himself.
(d) He is afraid of conflict.

7. What kind of job does the narrator get in Chapter 5?
(a) Museum guide.
(b) Messenger boy.
(c) Waiting tables.
(d) Loading transport trucks.

8. What had the narrator intended to study in the graduate program?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Education.
(c) Art.
(d) Business.

9. Where does the narrator spend time with Lou and the woman in #140?
(a) Restaurants.
(b) Lou's apartment.
(c) A gay beach.
(d) Bookstores.

10. The narrator is angry when the magazine he works for publishes an article denouncing ______________________.
(a) women's lib.
(b) the war in Vietnam.
(c) the hippie movement.
(d) the emerging gay rights movement.

11. The narrator has harbored fantasies about ________________________.
(a) moving to Europe.
(b) becoming a woman.
(c) killing his father.
(d) committing suicide.

12. Who does the narrator consider marrying?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Maria.
(c) Denise.
(d) Annie.

13. Who is the temperamental roommate who the narrator has for awhile?
(a) A Russian dancer.
(b) A music composer.
(c) An opera singer.
(d) A painter.

14. What is the narrator unable to do?
(a) Stop having sex with men in bathrooms.
(b) Sleep through the night.
(c) Continue his schooling.
(d) Finish his thesis.

15. Lou and Maria both know that the narrator ___________________ Sean.
(a) has fallen in love with.
(b) has tired of.
(c) is bored by.
(d) hates.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's relationship with Sean develops during the time that both John F. Kennedy and ______________ died.

2. Why does the roommate move out of the narrator's apartment?

3. The narrator has lived for a year _____________________.

4. Where does the narrator spend a lot of time after Sean leaves?

5. Which of the following does NOT describe the narrator's sexual identity?

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