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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. While Eric and Toby are having sex, what unromantic topic does Toby bring up?
(a) A difficult scene he is writing.
(b) Whether the month's mortgage has been paid.
(c) Getting Chinese food for dinner.
(d) A new couch that he wants to buy.

2. What is Adam referring to when he mentions getting a PEP prescription?
(a) A medication that minimizes the side effects of AIDS.
(b) A medication taken as a preventative before a possible exposure to HIV.
(c) A medication that lowers the chance of becoming infected after an exposure to HIV.
(d) A medication that prevents transmission of HIV to an uninfected partner.

3. Who is Harvey Milk?
(a) The founder of an AIDS charity.
(b) A drag queen.
(c) A black ballroom icon.
(d) An openly gay politician.

4. What does Walter tell Eric about Eric's relationship with Toby?
(a) He thinks they are not well-suited to one another.
(b) He thinks that Toby is using Eric for a place to live.
(c) He thinks that as Toby becomes more successful, he will lose interest in Eric.
(d) He thinks it likely that Toby will leave Eric for Adam.

5. What are the Young Men all doing in the play's prologue?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Writing.
(c) Posting selfies.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Adam invites Toby into his apartment for a drink, what covert agenda is revealed in his dialogue?

2. Where is the apartment that Henry offers Eric located?

3. What does Eric point to as the primary way culture is transmitted?

4. How does Walter's attitude seem to change in the weeks after Eric's birthday?

5. Which of Eric's friends reacts with disgust to the idea of having children?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eric come to live in such a nice apartment, and what issue is he facing with this apartment in Act One?

2. What secret does Morgan say Eric is keeping from everyone, and what is Morgan's belief about this secret?

3. In Act Three, Scene Three, how does Toby's description of his life contrast with Morgan's commentary?

4. What does Toby accuse Morgan of in Act Three, Scene Four, and how does Morgan respond?

5. What is ironic about Jason 2's question to Walter about whether Walter worries about what will happen if Henry dies first?

6. Who is Tom Durrell, and how does he become significant in the Act Three, Scene One conversation between Toby and Adam?

7. How does Toby embarrass himself when he is staying at Henry Wilcox's house?

8. How does the opening of Act Two foreshadow trouble in Eric and Toby's relationship?

9. How do their differing responses to the AIDS crisis illustrate something fundamentally different about Walter and Henry?

10. In what sense does Adam feel he might have played a part in Eric and Toby's breakup?

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