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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. Who does the narrator consider marrying?
(a) Annie.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Maria.
(d) Denise.

2. How does the narrator feel about the criticism of the person in #102?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Satisfied.
(c) Eager.
(d) Grateful.

3. What do the narrator's parents consider a normal life for their son?
(a) Being a doctor.
(b) Being whoever he wants to be.
(c) Being heterosexual.
(d) Being an artist.

4. While at the location in #177, the narrator learns that which celebrity has died?
(a) Judy Garland.
(b) John Wayne.
(c) Montgomery Clift.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the hair of the girl on the subway?

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

3. What does the narrator realize about himself?

4. After Lou is engaged, he calls the narrator to tell him that ________________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the relationship between Maria and the narrator change when she moves to New York?

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

5. What do the narrator's parents--and society in general--consider to be a "normal" lifestyle for their son?

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

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

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

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

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

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