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

2. Instead of going to grad school, where does the narrator go?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York City.
(d) Miami.

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

4. The narrator's sister's homosexuality suggests __________________________.
(a) childhood abuse.
(b) a rebellious nature.
(c) a genetic component to homosexuality.
(d) sibling rivalry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city does Maria move?

2. How much weight does the narrator lose?

3. Who is Lou?

4. What does the narrator do in his free time?

5. Where does the person in #124 find a job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the energy created among the men after the group sexual encounter in the subway restroom

2. How does shame get pushed aside in the events leading up to, and after, the Stonewall Inn raids?

3. What are a couple of topics that Lou tries to educate the narrator on?

4. What changes the narrator's mind about having a sex change operation?

5. What is the narrator's life like after he moves to New York?

6. What is the reality of Lou's life as an engaged man?

7. How does the narrator feel about Lou's criticism of the narrator's work?

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

9. How can Sean's "subhuman" comment be viewed in another context regarding the narrator's letting go of the shame he used to have for his behavior and desires?

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

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