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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Arnold try to justify the anonymous encounter?
(a) By saying it is an attempt at finding love.
(b) By saying he didn't know what the stranger was going to do.
(c) By saying he wanted to see what it was like to have sex with a man.
(d) By pointing out that the man was a lot bigger than Arnold and so Arnold was intimidated.

2. With what is Ed conflicted?
(a) Whether to quit his job.
(b) Whether to move to New York.
(c) He has no real conflicts at the moment.
(d) His homosexulity.

3. How does Arnold make a living?
(a) As a male model and a hustler for gay sex.
(b) As an architect.
(c) As a bartender.
(d) As a teacher.

4. How much time has passed since scene 2?
(a) A year.
(b) Four days.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Four months.

5. What does the stranger do when Arnold tries to talk?
(a) Jokes around with Arnold.
(b) Arnold is too scared to talk.
(c) The stranger replies that he is deaf.
(d) Slaps Arnold.

6. What is a stranger doing to Arnold?
(a) Fondling him and opening his pants.
(b) Handing him a joint with incredible hashish.
(c) Berating him.
(d) Offering him a line of cocaine.

7. What has taken Ed by surprise?
(a) That he knew Alan in elementary school.
(b) That Arnold has lost 30 pounds.
(c) That Laurel and Alan are cousins.
(d) That Arnold is involved with someone new.

8. What does Arnold express to Ed about their relationship?
(a) That he never really wants to see Ed again.
(b) That Ed would return but also that Ed would have more clarity on the direction of his personal life.
(c) That is could be a lifelong commitment.
(d) That he wishes Ed had come back sooner because Arnold is now in another relationship.

9. How is the character Ed Reiss described?
(a) As a race car driver turned bartender.
(b) As a homosexual man.
(c) As tall and with a pockmarked face.
(d) As having an obviously bad headache.

10. What is Arnold talking about with the other person?
(a) How he has been tested for AIDS.
(b) About the decorations.
(c) That he is hurt by Ed's betrayal and wants a deep and true love.
(d) That he plans to kill himself.

11. How would Arnold most likely describe his love life?
(a) Wonderful.
(b) Humiliating.
(c) Monagamous.
(d) Lackluster.

12. What does Ed ask the person with whom he is conversing?
(a) If he can get a Tom Collins.
(b) If the water is back on.
(c) If the back room is crowded.
(d) If it is uncomfortable sleeping on the vents.

13. Where is Arnold at the opening of this scene?
(a) The International Stud gay bar.
(b) The hospital.
(c) At home.
(d) In a church service.

14. About what does Laurel seem particularly smug?
(a) About her sophistication of hosting Ed's former lover in their home.
(b) An incredibly funny joke she just related.
(c) The flan that she made that was perfect.
(d) About the decor of the house.

15. Who does Ed say he dates?
(a) Women as well as men.
(b) Only Oriental women.
(c) No one.
(d) Only men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ed dating?

2. How is the person trying to awaken Arnold?

3. How long has it been since Arnold and Ed have ended their relationship?

4. What is the setting at the opening of this scene?

5. What is Laurel's knowledge of the fact that Ed and Arnold were once lovers?

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