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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. What does Eric reveal and then try to take back while he and Toby are having sex?
(a) He wants to see other people.
(b) They are both getting older.
(c) They might have to move.
(d) He wants to get married.

2. What starts the Act Two, Scene Three fight between Eric and Toby?
(a) Toby discovers that they are losing the apartment.
(b) Eric discovers that Toby slept with Adam.
(c) Toby tells Eric that he is moving to Chicago.
(d) Eric tells Toby that he hates Toby's play.

3. What detail of his personal background does Adam reveal after Toby accuses him of being coddled?
(a) He was adopted.
(b) He was bullied in school.
(c) He was very ill as a child.
(d) He spent time in jail.

4. Whose music does Eric play for his friends at his birthday party in Act One, Scene Two?
(a) Chopin.
(b) Ravel.
(c) Debussy.
(d) Dvořák.

5. Whom is it implied that Leo looks like?
(a) Eric.
(b) Tom.
(c) Adam.
(d) Toby.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 53, what does Young Man 1 say "upended" Eric's life?

2. While Eric and Toby are having sex, what unromantic topic does Toby bring up?

3. On page 109, what phrase does Toby say he is going to have engraved on his tombstone?

4. What is indicated by Walter's difficulty with the word "ghosting" (54)?

5. How does Adam characterize Elan in Act One, Scene Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. During Eric's birthday brunch, how does Jason 1 turn a nostalgic conversation about the past into a conversation about future goals?

3. What is the main point of the poem fragment "Hidden" that serves as the book's epigraph?

4. What is at the heart of Eric's nostalgia for the gay community's past?

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

6. At dinner with Henry and his sons, what innocent joke does Eric make and why does it so alarm Paul and Charles?

7. Why is the night of November 8, 2016 thematically significant?

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

9. Why does Young Man 1 turn to Morgan for help in the play's prologue?

10. How do Charles and Paul's attitudes in the hallway after Eric's brunch foreshadow their actions at the end of Act Two?

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