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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Morris?
(a) A newspaper editor.
(b) An attorney.
(c) Tex's assistant.
(d) The narrator's father.
2. Who is William Everett Hunton?
(a) Annie's father.
(b) The narrator's godfather.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) A friend of Annie and the narrator.
3. When the narrator spends an evening out with Morris and some other friends he realizes that _____________________ attracts negative attention from others.
(a) smoking.
(b) drinking too much.
(c) just being who they are.
(d) telling crude jokes.
4. What is notable about Betts and Buddy?
(a) They are lesbians.
(b) They are professors.
(c) They are sculptors.
(d) They are authors.
5. How does the narrator feel after the sexual encounter in #47?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Content.
(c) Happy.
(d) Exhilirated.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which place did the narrator often visit across the street from the prep school?
2. What is a powerful negative force in the narrator's life?
3. Who does the psychiatrist in #63 think is the only one who can cure the narrator?
4. The partner of the person in #38 exploits Tex's need for ______________.
5. In what city does the narrator visit with the person in #73?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maria reveal to the narrator when he visits during Christmas vacation in Chapter 4?
2. Why does the narrator long to be heterosexual, especially when he sees the irresponsible behavior of his heterosexual fraternity brothers?
3. Why did the narrator decide to study Chinese?
4. How does the narrator categorize his life during his first year at college?
5. How do Maria and the narrator feel about each other by the end of Chapter 4, and how do they act on those feelings?
6. From what written piece is the name of the book taken, and what does it mean?
7. How did the struggle for acceptance and freedom for lesbians differ from that of gay men?
8. What is the significance of Betty and Kay to the narrator's life?
9. What is Tex's theory about a man acting on his sexual desires for other men and how does that make the narrator feel about Tex?
10. How does the narrator's subway ride further alienate him from what he thinks is normal life?
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