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

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

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

4. What does the apartment building's doorman tell the narrator's mother when she returns?
(a) Someone tried to break into her apartment.
(b) New fire alarms have been installed.
(c) The air conditioning has been repaired.
(d) The narrator spends a lot of time with Lou.

5. What type of operation does the narrator decide not to have?
(a) Foot.
(b) Cosmetic.
(c) Sex change.
(d) Gallbladder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the gay club which is raided by police?

2. Where does the narrator spend time with Lou and the woman in #140?

3. What does the narrator suggest that he and Sean do together?

4. The narrator has to take Lou to a backroom physician to treat _______________________.

5. With whom does the narrator begin a relationship during this Summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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