"Mysterious Skin" (Character Questions) Quiz

Answer: True

Neil is quite young when he discovers his sexual orientation. As an adult, he is mainly drawn to men in their forties and fifties, and he services many such individuals as a prostitute.

Answer: Wendy

After he has finished servicing the client and gets his payment, Neil returns to the playground at the park and meets up with Wendy, who rides up on a bike. Neil takes Wendy to the men's restroom and shows her where his advertisement is scrawled on the wall.

At first, Wendy does not believe Neil and thinks that he is just trying to shock her. However, when he shows her where his trick injured him, she is convinced, albeit upset.

Answer: Avalyn

Avalyn lives out in the country on a farm with cows. When Brian first drives up, Avalyn is wearing a light calico dress and a pink cardigan sweater. Avalyn, like Brian, is a bit off-kilter and awkward, personality-wise, and she shares a similar obsession with alien abductions.

Answer: She walks with a crutch.

Avalyn's crutch is a forearm crutch. She uses just one and she holds it with her left arm. Her need for it is not explicitly defined, though she seems to have some weakness and/or stiffness in her legs.

Answer: No

When Avalyn and Brian are alone in his room, Avalyn tries to seduce him, but Brian yells at her and knocks her to the ground. Avalyn leaves, as he asks, and from that point forward, Brian actively avoids having any contact with her.

Answer: Eric

Neil has just gotten on a bus ride to New York, and Mrs. McCormick and Eric have returned from saying their goodbyes to him. As result of Neil's absence, Brian's search for answers is delayed for a while, but as a result of Eric's presence, Brian is able to make a new friend in him. Eric is gay, and he dresses and behaves rather flamboyantly.

He also has a not-so-secret crush on Neil, calling him "so beautiful" and "like a god."

Answer: Neil

Wendy says this to Eric the day before she leaves for New York while they are alone in his car after dropping Neil off in the park. She says it in order to warn Eric from getting too close to Neil; she has seen the dark side of Neil, and, though she cares for him, it deeply scares her.

Answer: Neil

Neil expresses this sentiment to no one in particular after he gets off work at his part-time gig as an announcer for local baseball games. He has serviced everyone on the local baseball team, and he is frustrated by the lack of future conquests. He soon leaves his little town in Kansas and moves to New York with Wendy.

Answer: Eric to Brian

Eric says this to Brian as they drink in Eric's attic on Brian's birthday. Brian has never been drunk before, and Eric is proud at having caused his state of inebriation. Brian eventually gets so drunk that, when Eric drops Brian off at his house, and Brian sees his father dropping off a birthday present, he launches into a drunken tirade about his childhood.

"I was bleeding. I kept passing out. I wet my bed, and you never asked why... What do you know about it? Tell me!"

His father replies:

"I'm sorry, Brian. I can't help you."

Answer: Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg has been in acting since she was six years old, performing in such films as "Harriet the Spy" and "Eurotrip," as well as the TV shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Gossip Girl," among others.