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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 narrator comments on Maria's growing __________________.
(a) bank account.
(b) feminism.
(c) waist line.
(d) confidence.

2. The narrator has lived for a year _____________________.
(a) as a kept man.
(b) as a fat man.
(c) as a happy man.
(d) as an intern.

3. The narrator has harbored fantasies about ________________________.
(a) committing suicide.
(b) becoming a woman.
(c) killing his father.
(d) moving to Europe.

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

5. What shocking news does the narrator's sister tell him during her visit?
(a) She is an alcoholic.
(b) He has been cut out of his father's will.
(c) She is a lesbian.
(d) Their parents are reuniting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator behave during the event in #163?

3. Who goes with the narrator to the city in #123?

4. The narrator evades being drafted into the army by ______________________.

5. Who does the narrator consider marrying?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Why does Sean's comment about a group of men having sex in a public restroom as being "subhuman" have a particular sting for the narrator?

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

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

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