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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is notable about Betts and Buddy?

2. In what part of the country did the narrator grow up?

3. Tex believes that once a man ______________________________, he becomes uninteresting to other homosexuals.

4. In what year is the narrator at the school in #49?

5. Which of the following does NOT describe Hunton?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Maria and the narrator feel about each other by the end of Chapter 4, and how do they act on those feelings?

2. What role does Dr. O'Reilly serve in the narrator's life?

3. What are some of the narrator's fundamental beliefs about sexuality?

4. What does the narrator learn about Hunton from an older man with the same name?

5. How does the narrator's subway ride further alienate him from what he thinks is normal life?

6. What is Tex's theory about a man acting on his sexual desires for other men and how does that make the narrator feel about Tex?

7. What is the significance of Betty and Kay to the narrator's life?

8. How did the struggle for acceptance and freedom for lesbians differ from that of gay men?

9. Who is William Everett Hunton, and what negative impact does he have on the lives of Annie and the narrator?

10. What does Maria reveal to the narrator when he visits during Christmas vacation in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a character study of the narrator. What are his physical characteristics? What are his motivations? What are his fears? What are his dreams? What else can you say about the narrator?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of gays and lesbians in the 1960s. What precedents were they forced to follow? What restrictions did they have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century gays and lesbians do not have?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

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