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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. Where does the narrator spend time with Lou and the woman in #140?

2. The narrator has been accepted into a graduate program at what university?

3. Where does the person in #124 find a job?

4. Who is the temperamental roommate who the narrator has for awhile?

5. Why does Lou tell the narrator that Lou wants to get married?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator feel about Lou's criticism of the narrator's work?

7. What happens to the narrator after Sean is gone?

8. What is the reality of Lou's life as an engaged man?

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

10. What is the significance of the narrator's sister's visit and her revelation of being a lesbian?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Project into the future ten years after the end of the novel and write a brief synopsis for the lives of the narrator and three other characters. Be sure to incorporate personal, political and cultural impacts on the characters' lives.

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

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

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