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

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

3. The narrator's father's knowledge of the narrator's sexuality created ____________________.
(a) a bond of love and acceptance.
(b) a curiosity to be quenched.
(c) a bond of hatred and anger between the two.
(d) a validation of his life.

4. What is the narrator's current obsession?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Video games.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Anonymous, promiscuous sex.

5. What is notable about Betts and Buddy?
(a) They are authors.
(b) They are sculptors.
(c) They are lesbians.
(d) They are professors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tex hints to the narrator that the man in #45 might be able to teach the narrator about what?

2. What is the result of Hunton's sexual dalliance with Annie?

3. When the narrator tells his mother he is going to a dance, he is actually going ____________________.

4. Which prep school does the narrator attend?

5. Which of the following is NOT a part of his life that the narrator keeps separate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Buddhism connected to the narrator's seemingly paradoxical desires for sex with men and also freedom from that desire.

2. How does the narrator compare his life to the life of the Chinese woman he meets?

3. How does the narrator meet Tex and Morris?

4. What does the narrator realize about himself over the course of the novel?

5. How does the longing for approval manifest in the narrator's life?

6. Why does the narrator long to be heterosexual, especially when he sees the irresponsible behavior of his heterosexual fraternity brothers?

7. 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?

8. With whom does the narrator have his first gay sexual experience and how does he feel about it afterward?

9. How did the struggle for acceptance and freedom for lesbians differ from that of gay men?

10. How do Maria and the narrator feel about each other by the end of Chapter 4, and how do they act on those feelings?

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