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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 narrator is angry when the magazine he works for publishes an article denouncing ______________________.
(a) the war in Vietnam.
(b) women's lib.
(c) the emerging gay rights movement.
(d) the hippie movement.

2. What do the narrator's parents consider a normal life for their son?
(a) Being an artist.
(b) Being whoever he wants to be.
(c) Being a doctor.
(d) Being heterosexual.

3. The person in #102 instructs the narrator on how to be a better lover and a better ______________.
(a) athlete.
(b) writer.
(c) singer.
(d) friend.

4. The narrator has to take Lou to a backroom physician to treat _______________________.
(a) an intestinal blockage.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) a knife wound.

5. How does the narrator meet Sean?
(a) He produced a play which the narrator wrote.
(b) He came to the apartment looking for the Russian dancer.
(c) He had a bathroom encounter with him.
(d) He met him at a gay bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator has harbored fantasies about ________________________.

2. Which of the following is NOT true of Lou?

3. What habit does the narrator have that makes Maria angry?

4. What does the narrator do in his free time?

5. What is notable about the woman in #139?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Lou and how does the narrator meet him?

2. How do the narrator's views of himself change according to whose perspective he is viewed in?

3. 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?

4. What do the narrator's parents--and society in general--consider to be a "normal" lifestyle for their son?

5. How can Sean's "subhuman" comment be viewed in another context regarding the narrator's letting go of the shame he used to have for his behavior and desires?

6. What is the narrator's life like after he moves to New York?

7. Where does the narrator move to instead of going to Harvard where he has been accepted into a graduate program?

8. What happens to the narrator after Sean is gone?

9. What is significant about the energy created among the men after the group sexual encounter in the subway restroom

10. What eventually happens to Sean who is conflicted by his own identity?

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