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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. The relationship between Tex and Morris is sometimes _________________.
(a) pitiful.
(b) tense.
(c) angry.
(d) funny.
2. What is the nature of the narrator's time with the psychiatrist?
(a) For the narrator to get over his broken heart.
(b) To talk about the father issues the narrator has.
(c) To manage the narrator's fear of heights.
(d) For the narrator to become heterosexual.
3. The narrator's feelings about his father lead the narrator to make judgmental comments about __________________.
(a) an effeminate English teacher.
(b) his mother.
(c) his soccer coach.
(d) his father.
4. Which of the following is NOT a topic the narrator discusses with Maria?
(a) Life.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Literature.
5. What happens when the person in #73 visits the narrator at the end of the school year?
(a) They go to a few concerts.
(b) They steal a car.
(c) They go to the beach.
(d) They make love several times.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who introduces the narrator to oral and anal sex?
2. Tex hints to the narrator that the man in #45 might be able to teach the narrator about what?
3. Who was abusive to Annie and her brother?
4. Who had introduced the narrator to Hunton?
5. What does Tex complain to the narrator about in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is William Everett Hunton, and what negative impact does he have on the lives of Annie and the narrator?
2. Why did the narrator decide to study Chinese?
3. What does the narrator think about when he watches Tex and Morris interact?
4. What role does Dr. O'Reilly serve in the narrator's life?
5. What is the significance of Betty and Kay to the narrator's life?
6. What does the narrator want from his life and when does he become aware of these needs?
7. What does Maria reveal to the narrator when he visits during Christmas vacation in Chapter 4?
8. What are some of the narrator's fundamental beliefs about sexuality?
9. How does the narrator's subway ride further alienate him from what he thinks is normal life?
10. How is Buddhism connected to the narrator's seemingly paradoxical desires for sex with men and also freedom from that desire.
This section contains 1,080 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
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