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

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

3. What does the narrator suggest that he and Sean do together?
(a) Buy a condo.
(b) Go to therapy.
(c) Vacation in Provence.
(d) Move to Chicago.

4. While at the location in #177, the narrator learns that which celebrity has died?
(a) John Wayne.
(b) Montgomery Clift.
(c) Judy Garland.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What shocking news does the narrator's sister tell him during her visit?

3. What had the narrator intended to study in the graduate program?

4. How old is the narrator during this Summer?

5. Instead of going to grad school, where does the narrator go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lou desperate to get married and how does the narrator help him?

2. What eventually happens to Sean who is conflicted by his own identity?

3. What is the significance of the author's using the present tense for scene in which the narrator engages in group sex in the subway restroom?

4. Why is the New York experience so important to the narrator's longing to be part of a community?

5. Who is Sean and how did the narrator meet him?

6. How do the narrator's views of himself change according to whose perspective he is viewed in?

7. How can the raid on the Stonewall Inn be both a beginning and an ending of a gay rights movement?

8. What does the narrator experience for the first time after a sexual encounter in a subway restroom that he has never experienced before?

9. What happens to the narrator after Sean is gone?

10. What is the significance of the narrator's sister's visit and her revelation of being a lesbian?

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