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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, 1990-91, One Last Year of Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?
(a) The diocese bishop.
(b) The Board of Education.
(c) Parents of campers.
(d) No one.

2. What does Mel pretend when he is younger?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) He is adopted.
(c) He is sickly.
(d) He likes girls.

3. What does Mel see as one aspect to many of the right-wing Christian leaders for whom Mel works?
(a) An inept and bungling aspect.
(b) A confused and fearful aspect.
(c) A dark and arrogant aspect.
(d) A willingness to change their ideas.

4. What group does Falwell form partly through the influence of Francis Schaeffer?
(a) Moral Minority.
(b) Christian Majority.
(c) Moral Majority.
(d) Christian Minority.

5. What is one reason that Mel finds for which Sodom was not destroyed?
(a) Homosexual acts of its citizens.
(b) Bigotry.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A volcano.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mel feel alienated in high school?

2. In what field does Mel begin a doctorate?

3. What happens to Mel's career during the Seventies?

4. What is Mel's major field in college?

5. What does Mel now consider his feelings of love for another man?

(see the answer key)

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