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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 do the narrator's parents consider a normal life for their son?
2. The narrator's sister who lives in ______________ visits him in New York City.
3. What is the name of the gay club which is raided by police?
4. The narrator sets Lou up with ____________________.
5. The person in #102 instructs the narrator on how to be a better lover and a better ______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator come to learn about Lou and what factor will probably preclude his and Lou's relationship from becoming too serious?
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. Who is Sean and how did the narrator meet him?
4. What does the narrator experience for the first time after a sexual encounter in a subway restroom that he has never experienced before?
5. What is the narrator's life like after he moves to New York?
6. Why is Lou desperate to get married and how does the narrator help him?
7. How does the narrator feel about Lou's criticism of the narrator's work?
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 can the raid on the Stonewall Inn be both a beginning and an ending of a gay rights movement?
10. Why is the New York experience so important to the narrator's longing to be part of a community?
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
The story takes place as America is experiencing the Hippie Generation, the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and drug usage in the late 1960s. Explain the significance of these political and cultural events on the narrator and the other homosexual people in his life. How would the narrator's life be different if he were living as a young man today? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Substance abuse seems to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive is the abuse? Why does it have such a prevalent place in the characters' lives? How does it affect the abusers? How does it affect those impacted by the abusers? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.
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