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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, College—The Ghost of False Hope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mel worry would happen in the locker room?
(a) He would be bullied.
(b) He would get an erection.
(c) He would be caught staring at the other boys.
(d) He would be caught making out with another boy.

2. Who is Mel's second boyhood male crush?
(a) Arthur B.
(b) John J.
(c) Steve J.
(d) Johnny B.

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

4. Who is Peter W.?
(a) The third male that Mel has a crush on when younger.
(b) The author of a book about the sexual ways men get together.
(c) Mel's pastor who excoriates Mel for Mel's revelations.
(d) Mel's first real lover.

5. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?
(a) He felt alienated from his father.
(b) Very close.
(c) He felt afraid of his father.
(d) Close but Mel could not confide in the man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel describe his mother?

2. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?

3. What caused Noni's parents to conceive her?

4. What is one reason that Mel finds for which Sodom was not destroyed?

5. How does Mel feel when Lyla asks him to dance?

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