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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. Lou is jealous of ______________.
2. The person in #102 instructs the narrator on how to be a better lover and a better ______________.
3. What has happened to Paul, the art student?
4. How much weight does the narrator lose?
5. While at the location in #177, the narrator learns that which celebrity has died?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the reality of Lou's life as an engaged man?
2. What is significant about the energy created among the men after the group sexual encounter in the subway restroom
3. How does the relationship between Maria and the narrator change when she moves to New York?
4. How does the narrator's decreasing shame mirror what is going on in the gay community in general?
5. How can the raid on the Stonewall Inn be both a beginning and an ending of a gay rights movement?
6. How does shame get pushed aside in the events leading up to, and after, the Stonewall Inn raids?
7. What does the narrator consider for his life after Paul commits suicide in order to leave a world that rejects people like him?
8. Who is Lou and how does the narrator meet him?
9. What is the narrator's life like after he moves to New York?
10. Where does the narrator move to instead of going to Harvard where he has been accepted into a graduate program?
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 significance of the novel's title--"The Beautiful Room is Empty". Why did White choose this title? Is there an understood message in the title? Is there another title you can suggest that might be more appropriate?
Essay Topic 3
"The Beautiful Room is Empty" is a classic coming of age story. What does that classification entail? Why does this novel fit into this category? Explain.
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