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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 do Jason's parents fight about in Chapter 16?
(a) Jason.
(b) His mother's continued resistance to buying beer.
(c) Money.
(d) His mother's choice to go to an Al-Anon meeting.

2. Why does Shea refuse to repair her friendship with Nelson in Chapter 21?
(a) He is too self absorbed.
(b) She is moving away.
(c) Too much time has gone by.
(d) She no longer respects him.

3. Who does Kyle ask to attend a high school basketball game with him in Chapter 20?
(a) Jason.
(b) His father.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Jack.

4. On whose side does Nelson fall when Kyle tells Nelson about Jason's refusal to allow Kyle to sit with him in the cafeteria?
(a) Neither.
(b) Both.
(c) Jason's.
(d) Kyle's.

5. Why does Kyle go to see Nelson in Chapter 17?
(a) Nelson has not been to school.
(b) To work on homework together.
(c) To vent about Jason.
(d) To hide from his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jason make the final decision to attend the meeting?

2. Why does Jason stop Kyle from sitting at the athletes table in the cafeteria in Chapter 16?

3. What argument does Ms. MacTrough give for the approval of the GSA?

4. For what reason does Jason tell Debra he can no longer be with her?

5. Why does Jason turn up the sound on his stereo in Chapter 13, causing his father to become angry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jason feel that his father's leaving is his fault? How does Jason's father compare to Kyle and Nelson's fathers in this novel?

2. How does Jason's father respond to Kyle and Nelson? How does Jason deal with his father's reaction?

3. How does Jason respond to the kiss he has shared with Kyle?

4. Why does Nelson hook up with Blake at a Rainbow Youth party? What happens?

5. How does Nelson's mother respond to the information that Nelson had an unprotected sexual encounter? What impact does her response have on Nelson?

6. What happens when Jason comes across Jack Ransom and his friends fighting with Nelson and Kyle? How does Jason respond?

7. What does Nelson's father say to Nelson on the phone? What does this conversation suggest about Nelson's relationship with his father?

8. How does Corey react to the news that Jason is gay? What advice does he give Jason?

9. How does Kyle react to Nelson's confession of an unprotected sexual encounter? How does this situation impact Kyle?

10. With whom does Nelson go out in this chapter of the novel? What is different about this date than some of Nelson's other social encounters?

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