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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. Where does the narrator find a job?
(a) Restaurant.
(b) Magazine.
(c) Art gallery.
(d) Museum.
2. What does the apartment building's doorman tell the narrator's mother when she returns?
(a) The air conditioning has been repaired.
(b) The narrator spends a lot of time with Lou.
(c) Someone tried to break into her apartment.
(d) New fire alarms have been installed.
3. Where does the person in #124 find a job?
(a) Stock brokerage.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Ad agency.
(d) Publishing company.
4. What does the narrator's mother tell him when she returns?
(a) Dr. O'Reilly isn't doing him any good.
(b) He needs to move out.
(c) She is reconciling with his father.
(d) He is a brilliant writer.
5. What does Sean call a group of men he accidentally encountered having sex in a public bathroom?
(a) Opportunistic.
(b) Dreamers.
(c) Subhuman.
(d) Predators.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Sean eventually go?
2. To what city does Maria move?
3. What is the name of the gay club which is raided by police?
4. The person in #102 instructs the narrator on how to be a better lover and a better ______________.
5. The narrator has been accepted into a graduate program at what university?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the author's using the present tense for scene in which the narrator engages in group sex in the subway restroom?
2. What is significant about the energy created among the men after the group sexual encounter in the subway restroom
3. What is the reality of Lou's life as an engaged man?
4. What does the narrator consider for his life after Paul commits suicide in order to leave a world that rejects people like him?
5. How did the poverty-stricken lives of Betts and Buddy mirror the social deprivation during the times they lived through?
6. What are a couple of topics that Lou tries to educate the narrator on?
7. What changes the narrator's mind about having a sex change operation?
8. Why does Sean's comment about a group of men having sex in a public restroom as being "subhuman" have a particular sting for the narrator?
9. What eventually happens to Sean who is conflicted by his own identity?
10. What does the narrator come to learn about Lou and what factor will probably preclude his and Lou's relationship from becoming too serious?
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