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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. Where is the hotel room where Toby writes his second play?
(a) New York.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Connecticut.

2. What does Toby feel when Leo expresses an interest in reading his novel?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Anger.
(d) Panic.

3. What is the name of the farmhouse's caretaker?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Laura.
(c) June.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. What does Leo do each day during the beginning of his summer trip with Toby?
(a) He asks Toby when they can return to New York.
(b) He goes to the beach to read.
(c) He works out with other men his age.
(d) He invents new cocktails to amuse Toby.

5. Why does the caretaker take Eric and Leo to the cemetery on the farmhouse grounds?
(a) To share stories about the men who died in the farmhouse.
(b) To get Eric's help in tending the graves and show Leo how to do it when he is feeling better.
(c) To share stories of the house's former owners and the property's long history.
(d) To prove that she is not exaggerating about the number of men who died in the farmhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the criticisms of Eric's character that Henry makes in Act One, which does Eric imply is also a flaw of Henry's?

2. What does Leo realize about Toby when he gets to Toby's theater?

3. To whom is Jasper referring when he quizzes Henry about giving money to a certain political candidate (166)?

4. What reason does Tristan give for his move to Canada?

5. What is implied about the reason Leo is in such a hurry when he crashes into Toby outside the Strand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as soon as Toby gets back to his apartment after he visits his agent?

2. What memory is Toby recreating when he pressures Leo into attending the parties during their summer trip, and how does the reader know this?

3. How does Leo react when he first sees Toby at the farmhouse?

4. What is the "faux-art" that Tucker makes?

5. How does Toby's agent react to his new play?

6. Who was Edward Carpenter, and how did he inspire Maurice?

7. What is the subtext of Adam and Toby's argument about the new line Toby has added to the play?

8. What course does Eric's life take after Toby's death?

9. What admission about Leo does Henry make, and why does Eric find it so upsetting?

10. What does the farmhouse caretaker say is the reason that so many gay men died during the AIDS epidemic?

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