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

2. Where has Maria been living during her time away from the narrator?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Milwaukee.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

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

4. How does the narrator behave during the event in #163?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Boisterous.
(c) Hesitant.
(d) Very talkative.

5. Who is the temperamental roommate who the narrator has for awhile?
(a) An opera singer.
(b) A painter.
(c) A Russian dancer.
(d) A music composer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend a lot of time after Sean leaves?

2. What is notable about the woman in #139?

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

4. What type of operation does the narrator decide not to have?

5. The narrator comments on Maria's growing __________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does the narrator move to instead of going to Harvard where he has been accepted into a graduate program?

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

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

6. How did the poverty-stricken lives of Betts and Buddy mirror the social deprivation during the times they lived through?

7. How does the narrator's decreasing shame mirror what is going on in the gay community in general?

8. What does the narrator come to learn about Lou and what factor will probably preclude his and Lou's relationship from becoming too serious?

9. What does the narrator consider for his life after Paul commits suicide in order to leave a world that rejects people like him?

10. 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?

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