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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what does the Botanist do that surprises Jones and makes him feel awkward?
(a) Invites his mother to have dinner with the two of them.
(b) Invite another man to have a sexual experience with them.
(c) Invites Jones to meet his son.
(d) Invites a woman to have a sexual experience with them.

2. In Chapter 16, how does Jones feel about his mother's place in their family?
(a) She was the one everyone always worried about.
(b) She was the one everyone wanted to make proud.
(c) She drove everyone apart.
(d) She kept everyone together.

3. In Chapter 16, why does Jones's mother say they do not eat coconut cake in their family?
(a) Because it was the last cake they ate before her father died.
(b) Because his grandmother was slicing a coconut cake when they heard Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
(c) Because everyone hated coconut.
(d) Because many of them were allergic to coconut.

4. In Chapter 16, why does Jones set the schedule he does for himself?
(a) So he can talk with his mother every day.
(b) So he can write for at least an hour every morning.
(c) So he can get up and exercise.
(d) So he can do his Buddhist chanting.

5. 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 he does to turn girls on.
(d) He asks what his favorite kinds of breasts are.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who does Jones engage in sexual activity with at his first college party?

2. In Chapter 15, what happens suddenly when Jones and the man he is with on New Years Eve are kissing?

3. In Chapter 11, what does Jones use the tree branches in his grandmother's backyard for as a child?

4. In Chapter 16, what book is Jones's class in high school currently reading?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Jones do for the first time at a college party?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, why does Jones strive to stay so disciplined with his writing work?

2. In Chapter 15, how does Jones meet Daniel?

3. In Chapter 10, why does Jones end up attending the college he attends?

4. In Chapter 12, why do you think Jones tells the Botanist his name is Cody?

5. In Chapter 11, what do the dogwood trees on campus remind Jones of from his childhood?

6. In Chapter 13, why does Jones keep seeing the Botanist?

7. In Chapter 10, what happens to Jones at the first college party he attends?

8. In Chapter 17, what does Jones's mother make it clear she wants him to do and how does it turn out?

9. In Chapter 15, how does Jones end up feeling about Daniel just before Jones flees from Daniel's apartment?

10. In Chapter 12, how does Jones feel after having sex with the Botanist, and why?

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