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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only book that Richie tries to read during the play?
(a) Lewis Carroll's, "Behind the Looking Glass."
(b) Pauline Kael's, "I Lost it at the Movies."
(c) Jo & Meg's, "Comic Tragedies."
(d) William Faulkner's, "The Sound and the Fury."

2. During the discussion about Frankie, Billy tells Richie that there is a new theory regarding homosexuality. What is the new theory?
(a) That it is from drinking the water in New York.
(b) That it only happens to boys who grow up without fathers.
(c) Genetics.
(d) That is is nurture, not nature.

3. What does Richie suggest Billy do instead of going to town with Carlyle and Roger?
(a) Go to cool off and take a shower.
(b) Go to the movies with him.
(c) Go to play basketball with him.
(d) Go to town together.

4. As the men are discussing Carlyle before going to town, why does Roger say Carlyle has been acting like he has?
(a) Roger feels like the whites are always trying to "keep him down."
(b) Roger claims Carlyle is messed up in the head.
(c) Roger claims that Carlyle is an alcoholic.
(d) Roger claims Carlyle is homophobic.

5. Richie enters the bunk room as Carlyle and Billy are discussing him. What does Richie state about Carlyle?
(a) That Carlyle is ignorant.
(b) That Carlyle has not come down out of the trees yet.
(c) That Carlyle is trouble.
(d) That Carlyle is a closet homosexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What initial reason does Roger give for going off base with Carlyle?

2. As Carlyle is leaving the room, he calls Richie a punk. What does Richie call Carlyle?

3. When talking to Billy out "quality of talent," what is Carlyle referring to in regard to Richie and other men in the unit?

4. What does Roger make Billy do when Billy tells him he is "sick-like"?

5. When Carlyle begins to flirt drunkenly with Richie, what does he do?

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