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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. How can Ivan best be described?
(a) Morose.
(b) Pensive.
(c) Jovial.
(d) Sad.
2. The narrator pursues sexual relations with whom?
(a) Mick.
(b) Brian.
(c) Seth.
(d) Chad.
3. Which of the following is NOT a part of his life that the narrator keeps separate?
(a) His psychiatric treatments.
(b) His sexuality.
(c) His religion.
(d) His fraternity.
4. In Chapter 2, the narrator is in his last year of ___________________.
(a) boarding school.
(b) grad school.
(c) college.
(d) junior high.
5. Where does the narrator spend much of his time while on this vacation?
(a) The mall.
(b) The library.
(c) A bookstore.
(d) The beach.
Short Answer Questions
1. Tex refers to himself as the narrator's __________________.
2. The narrator hints at his slowly emerging ____________________.
3. The narrator's father's knowledge of the narrator's sexuality created ____________________.
4. When the narrator spends an evening out with Morris and some other friends he realizes that _____________________ attracts negative attention from others.
5. What is the nature of the narrator's time with the psychiatrist?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the longing for approval manifest in the narrator's life?
2. How did the struggle for acceptance and freedom for lesbians differ from that of gay men?
3. Who is William Everett Hunton, and what negative impact does he have on the lives of Annie and the narrator?
4. Why is the narrator the embodiment of sacrificing oneself for the sake of social acceptance?
5. How does the narrator compare his life to the life of the Chinese woman he meets?
6. How does the narrator's subway ride further alienate him from what he thinks is normal life?
7. What does the narrator think about when he watches Tex and Morris interact?
8. What does the narrator realize about himself over the course of the novel?
9. What is Tex's theory about a man acting on his sexual desires for other men and how does that make the narrator feel about Tex?
10. How is Buddhism connected to the narrator's seemingly paradoxical desires for sex with men and also freedom from that desire.
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