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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's last ditch attempt at appearing "normal"?
(a) Playing football.
(b) Working at a meat packing plant.
(c) No more writing poetry.
(d) Considering marriage to Maria.

2. Why does the roommate move out of the narrator's apartment?
(a) He thinks the building is too noisy.
(b) He thinks the increase in rent is too high.
(c) He doesn't like how the narrator opens a jar of coffee.
(d) He prefers to live in a place with morning light.

3. What is the name of the gay club which is raided by police?
(a) The Algonquin.
(b) Atlas Inn.
(c) Stonewall Inn.
(d) Majestic Theatre.

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

5. The raid on the club in #177 marked the beginning of ______________________.
(a) the women's lib movement.
(b) the civil rights movement.
(c) the gay rights movement.
(d) anti-war protests.

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

7. What does the narrator's mother tell him when she returns?
(a) Dr. O'Reilly isn't doing him any good.
(b) He is a brilliant writer.
(c) She is reconciling with his father.
(d) He needs to move out.

8. Sean contacts the narrator to tell him that he had to leave their relationship because the narrator was ______________.
(a) too gay.
(b) too angry.
(c) too clinging.
(d) too emotional.

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

10. What is notable about the woman in #139?
(a) She is autistic.
(b) She is albino.
(c) She is artistic.
(d) She is androgynous.

11. Where does the narrator spend his free time during this Summer?
(a) The library.
(b) A theme park.
(c) The beach.
(d) A coffee shop.

12. What does the narrator's mother give him before she goes?
(a) Credit card.
(b) Keys to apartment.
(c) Keys to car.
(d) Country club account number.

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

14. The narrator has lived for a year _____________________.
(a) as a kept man.
(b) as a fat man.
(c) as an intern.
(d) as a happy man.

15. What does Sean call a group of men he accidentally encountered having sex in a public bathroom?
(a) Predators.
(b) Dreamers.
(c) Subhuman.
(d) Opportunistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another reason that the narrator is having a better time being homosexual?

2. Where does the narrator find a job?

3. The narrator has harbored fantasies about ________________________.

4. Why does Maria move to the city in #134?

5. Which of the following is NOT true of Lou?

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