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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. The raid on the club in #177 marked the beginning of ______________________.
(a) the women's lib movement.
(b) the gay rights movement.
(c) anti-war protests.
(d) the civil rights movement.

2. Where does the narrator spend time with Lou and the woman in #140?
(a) Bookstores.
(b) Lou's apartment.
(c) Restaurants.
(d) A gay beach.

3. The person in #102 instructs the narrator on how to be a better lover and a better ______________.
(a) singer.
(b) friend.
(c) athlete.
(d) writer.

4. What does the narrator come to realize by living in this new city?
(a) He wants to marry Maria.
(b) He still does not fit in.
(c) There are many homosexual men.
(d) He misses his home.

5. What is one reason the narrator is having a better time being a homosexual?
(a) He is more mature now.
(b) He is in a city which is more open to alternative lifestyles.
(c) He has no more contact with his father.
(d) His body is more attractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the roommate move out of the narrator's apartment?

2. The narrator has been accepted into a graduate program at what university?

3. Where does Sean eventually go?

4. What will be the barrier to any relationship between Lou and the narrator?

5. What kind of job does the narrator get in Chapter 5?

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 the relationship between Maria and the narrator change when she moves to New York?

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

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

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

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

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 come to learn about Lou and what factor will probably preclude his and Lou's relationship from becoming too serious?

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

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