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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven, 1984-90, Giving Up the Ghost.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does Martin Luther King criticize Christian churches?
(a) Condemning homosexuals.
(b) Promoting the status quo.
(c) Dragging their feet when it comes to social justice.
(d) Enjoying the riches of an unequal society.

2. What does White not have the ability to do?
(a) Be honest with his congregation about his homosexuality.
(b) Be celibate as far as sex with men.
(c) Be honest with his wife.
(d) Leave the church.

3. What does Though I Walk Through the Valley concern?
(a) The life of a well-known politician.
(b) The idea of grace through works.
(c) The last year in the life of a dying man.
(d) The life of a young Vietnamese boy.

4. What does Mel say often happens to gay men who stay in the closet?
(a) They commit suicide.
(b) They are killed from anonymous sex or AIDS.
(c) They suffer depression.
(d) They become celibate.

5. What does Mel regret about his time during the civil rights era?
(a) Sitting on the sidelines.
(b) Not pushing homosexual rights when he worked so hard for black Americans.
(c) Speaking out against civil rights for blacks.
(d) Not trying to become friends with blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel's first film concern?

2. How do Mel and Lyla's children respond to the divorce?

3. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

4. When do Lyla and Mel file for divorce?

5. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?

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