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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 give him before she goes?
(a) Keys to car.
(b) Credit card.
(c) Keys to apartment.
(d) Country club account number.

2. Where does the narrator find a job?
(a) Museum.
(b) Magazine.
(c) Restaurant.
(d) Art gallery.

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

4. The narrator sets Lou up with ____________________.
(a) his neighbor.
(b) a museum docent.
(c) a girl from his office.
(d) his cousin.

5. How does the narrator's mother see him?
(a) As a blessing.
(b) As a genius.
(c) As a work in progress.
(d) As a failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true of Lou?

2. The narrator's sister's homosexuality suggests __________________________.

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

4. Eventually the narrator stops seeing ___________________.

5. The narrator realizes that Lou is addicted to ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the narrator's parents portrayed in the book and what do they want most for their son?

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

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

4. Who is Lou and how does the narrator meet him?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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