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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lou?
(a) An ice cream vendor.
(b) The building's superintendent.
(c) A chauffeur.
(d) A wealthy advertising executive.

2. Where does the narrator's mother go in Chapter 5?
(a) Europe.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) New York.
(d) Fiji.

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

4. How does the narrator meet Sean?
(a) He came to the apartment looking for the Russian dancer.
(b) He met him at a gay bar.
(c) He had a bathroom encounter with him.
(d) He produced a play which the narrator wrote.

5. What makes Maria threaten to end her friendship with the narrator?
(a) If he won't find a better job.
(b) If he won't break up with Sean.
(c) If he doesn't stop analyzing everyone.
(d) If he doesn't stop drinking.

6. Where does Sean eventually go?
(a) To his parents' home.
(b) To grad school.
(c) To Chicago.
(d) To London.

7. What does the narrator come to realize by living in this new city?
(a) He still does not fit in.
(b) There are many homosexual men.
(c) He wants to marry Maria.
(d) He misses his home.

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

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

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

11. The affection and intimacy between the narrator and _________________ grows during this time.
(a) Maria.
(b) Lou.
(c) Max.
(d) Annie.

12. How does Lou feel about the idea of heterosexual married life?
(a) He is anxious to begin it.
(b) He hates it.
(c) He'll soldier through it.
(d) He is scared of it.

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

14. The narrator comments on Maria's growing __________________.
(a) waist line.
(b) confidence.
(c) bank account.
(d) feminism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened recently to Buddy and Betts?

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

3. What has the narrator written?

4. To what city does Maria move?

5. Who goes with the narrator to the city in #123?

(see the answer keys)

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