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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 is implied by Leo's reaction to Toby's question about where he lives?
(a) Leo is homeless.
(b) Leo is shifty and dishonest.
(c) Leo is afraid of Toby.
(d) Leo is a private person.

2. After meeting Henry, what is the main point Eric's friends try to make about his relationship with Henry?
(a) Even though Eric and Henry are a strange match, they are both human beings who deserve to find happiness.
(b) Even though they have reservations about the relationship, Eric's friends trust his judgment and will support his decisions.
(c) Eric and Henry are opposites, and Eric will end up being hurt by this relationship.
(d) Eric and Henry are using one another to get over past hurts, and they are not really in love.

3. Of the criticisms of Eric's character that Henry makes in Act One, which does Eric imply is also a flaw of Henry's?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Inability to accept compliments.
(c) Stubbornness.
(d) Impracticality.

4. What is the consequence of Toby's behavior at the rehearsal of his play?
(a) The opening of the play is postponed.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He is barred from further rehearsals.
(d) The play is almost pulled from production.

5. When Young Henry and Young Walter replay their first meeting in Act Two, Scene Two, what is the rhetorical function of the detail about the movie E.T.?
(a) It reminds the audience that Henry has always been a devoted father.
(b) It offers insight into why Henry always has the upper hand in his relationships.
(c) It reveals a softer, kinder side of Henry's character.
(d) It demonstrates how rattled Henry is by his attraction to Walter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ideology does Henry tell Jason 2 his ideas about taxation fall into?

2. What point is emphasized by the Clinic Worker's initial confusion about Leo's name?

3. How many men does the caretaker tell Eric are buried at the farmhouse?

4. Why does the caretaker take Eric and Leo to the cemetery on the farmhouse grounds?

5. What is Eric looking at when he realizes what he wants to do with the farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What belief does Eric express in an attempt to resolve the political disagreement between Henry and his friends?

3. What does Henry's vague communication about Eric's belongings cause to happen at the farmhouse?

4. What regrets did Michael's mother have about his death, and what did she do to ease her conscience?

5. What leads Toby to write his second play?

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

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

8. In what sense does Toby re-enact his relationship with Eric through his relationship with Leo?

9. What causes Leo to think of HIV as "A bitter inheritance," and what is the significance of this diction (239)?

10. In Part Two, Act One's flashback to Young Henry and Young Walter first encountering the farmhouse, how do the two men's reactions differ?

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