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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 happens to make the narrator forget all about his fantasy in #136?
(a) He reads a disturbing journal of a man who had done it.
(b) He knows he would be convicted.
(c) He knows it would sadden his mother.
(d) He learns about the high cost of living.

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

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

4. What kind of job does the narrator get in Chapter 5?
(a) Loading transport trucks.
(b) Waiting tables.
(c) Messenger boy.
(d) Museum guide.

5. What does the narrator realize about himself?
(a) He is artistic.
(b) He is afraid of conflict.
(c) He wants to live by himself.
(d) He is wasting his life.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old is the narrator during this Summer?

4. Lou and Maria both know that the narrator ___________________ Sean.

5. Who is Lou?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator come to learn about Lou and what factor will probably preclude his and Lou's relationship from becoming too serious?

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

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