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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is most different about Paul after his one night stand with the Navy man?
(a) He is shyer than ever before.
(b) He can talk to anyone.
(c) He walks with his head up higher.
(d) He will only talk to women.

2. What does Paul purposefully do one Saturday after seeing some theater?
(a) Take the first train home to avoid the crowds.
(b) Miss the last train home.
(c) Go to a pub to pick someone up.
(d) Flirt with a man older than him.

3. How does Alida realize Paul is definitely gay?
(a) Paul tells her about his feelings for Scott.
(b) His coded love poem to Scott.
(c) Greg tells her everything that happened at Sutton Hill.
(d) She catches Paul in a one-night stand with a man.

4. Why is Paul jealous of Justin?
(a) Justin is in a happy homosexual relationship.
(b) Justin is more manly.
(c) Justin gets to date Sally.
(d) Justin is open and proud to be gay.

5. What major change occurs in Paul when he returns from Georgia?
(a) He is openly gay.
(b) He no longer distracts himself with a busy social schedule.
(c) He is able to have sex in his relationships again.
(d) He stops all relationships and one-night stands.

6. What eventually happens to Greg?
(a) He is expelled.
(b) He moves away the following year.
(c) He is drafted into the war.
(d) He runs away.

7. Paul's time with Betsy feels like what to him?
(a) A Greek dramedy.
(b) A big fat lie.
(c) A romance movie.
(d) A comedy.

8. What is Paul's response to the possibility that he may one day have to take care of Bobby?
(a) He starts planning how Bobby will fit into his life immediately.
(b) He believes his parents are looking to the wrong person.
(c) He tells his parents he refuses to give up his own life for his brother's.
(d) He is stressed about it but will do anything for his brother.

9. What goal is Paul determined to do while in Europe?
(a) See all the famous arts he has studied in Art History.
(b) Finish his thesis ahead of time.
(c) Get laid.
(d) Meet poets and writers.

10. What does Paul do to keep himself away from Greg?
(a) Pay more attention to the other boys.
(b) Start another sexual relationship.
(c) No longer allow the boys to hang out in his room.
(d) Stay in the library and avoid the dorms until late hours.

11. How does Paul distract himself from his stalled novel?
(a) Writing letters to old friends.
(b) Spending time with Elihu boys.
(c) Drinking in pubs.
(d) Walking on the beach.

12. Who does Paul dedicate his book of poems to?
(a) Julia and César.
(b) Alida and Ellen.
(c) His parents and Bobby.
(d) Roger and Stevie.

13. As usual, who does Paul best get along with at Canton?
(a) Older married women.
(b) Women.
(c) Young boys.
(d) Older men in the closet.

14. What causes Alida to leave the interior decorating business?
(a) Alida is returning to Princeton.
(b) Alida finds a man and is moving to Texas.
(c) She is jealous of Paul's happiness.
(d) Her feelings for Paul are too strong as he falls apart.

15. What does Paul like to do while reading Thoreau?
(a) Read aloud to capture the meaning.
(b) Sit naked in the woods.
(c) Compare Thoreau's writings to his journal.
(d) End a reading with a song from Bob Dylan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paul advertise himself at Canton?

2. Those who wait to love as long as Paul come to what possible endings?

3. Where is the only place Paul feels he can hide?

4. What does Paul like to answer when someones asks what he is doing?

5. What character type does Paul imitate to impress the Navy man?

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