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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter 10, what does Jones's RA persuade him and some of his fellow students to do?
(a) Trust falls.
(b) Play sports together.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Cook dinner together.
2. In Chapter 10, what book does Jones take out to re-read?
(a) The Dead.
(b) The Hours.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) The Awakening.
3. Which other speech and debate student does Jones attend a party with in Chapter 10?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Martha.
(c) Thea.
(d) John.
4. In Chapter 16, why does Jones set the schedule he does for himself?
(a) So he can do his Buddhist chanting.
(b) So he can talk with his mother every day.
(c) So he can write for at least an hour every morning.
(d) So he can get up and exercise.
5. In Chapter 14, what makes Jones pay closer attention to the conversation his friend and his friend's roommate are having?
(a) He thinks he hears them talking about him in a derogatory way.
(b) He thinks he hears one of them say the N-word.
(c) He thinks he hears them plotting a crime.
(d) He thinks he hears them talking about financial aid for college.
6. What does the Botanist have many of in his apartment?
(a) Cakes.
(b) Lamps.
(c) Birds.
(d) Potted trees.
7. In Chapter 11, what does Jones tell his friends about his relationship with his mother that shocks many of them?
(a) His mother does not know how much he dislikes Buddhism.
(b) He has not yet come out to his mother.
(c) His mother does not realize he has been in contact with his father.
(d) His mother thinks he is a Catholic.
8. In Chapter 14, what question does Jones's friend ask him that he had not expected him to ask so early in the game?
(a) Whether he has ever had sex with a woman.
(b) When he came out to his family.
(c) What it feels like to have sex with a man.
(d) Whether he will ever get married someday.
9. In Chapter 12, what cocktail does the Botanist make Jones?
(a) A vodka and cranberry.
(b) A Jack and Coke.
(c) A gin and tonic.
(d) A whiskey sour.
10. Which of the following questions does Jones's mother ask him when he tells her he is gay?
(a) Whether he uses protection.
(b) Whether he has told anyone else yet.
(c) Whether he has a boyfriend.
(d) Whether he is ever coming home again.
11. In Chapter 16, why does Jones feel he has to be so disciplined about his work?
(a) He wants his father to be proud of him.
(b) He does not want years to go by without his having published anything.
(c) He needs to make more money.
(d) He wants his students to be proud of him.
12. In Part Four, what grocery store does Jones's mother write that she often went to for food when he was a child?
(a) WaWa.
(b) Tom Thumb.
(c) Wegman's.
(d) Kroger.
13. In Chapter 12, why does Jones think the Botanist might think he is a bit dumb?
(a) He says "huh" and "what" often during their conversation.
(b) He talks more than he thinks he should about reality television.
(c) He pretends not to understand the Botanist's literary references.
(d) He does not understand the Botanist's scientific references.
14. In Chapter 10, what does Jones think about the way his mother looks as they go together to drop him off at college?
(a) She looks sad.
(b) She looks wealthy.
(c) She looks like the kind of women you would see in New York City.
(d) She looks ill.
15. In Chapter 14, what question does Jones ask his friend that he has found all straight men like?
(a) He asks what the sexiest thing a girl ever did for him was.
(b) He asks what losing his virginity was like.
(c) He asks what his favorite kinds of breasts are.
(d) He asks what he does to turn girls on.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 12, what kinds of things does the Botanist say during sex with Jones that disturbs Jones?
2. In Chapter 16, what book is Jones's class in high school currently reading?
3. Which student was brutally beaten, raped, and killed at the university Jones attends?
4. In Chapter 19, what is one way Jones has of dealing with the trauma he experienced on New Year's Eve?
5. Where is the university Jones attends in Chapter 10 located?
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