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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lyla go to school to earn?
(a) A degree in social work.
(b) Certification as a dental technician.
(c) A degree in education.
(d) A degree in nursing.

4. What does Mel not know the origins of?
(a) His self confidence.
(b) His desire to know God.
(c) His desire to excel above everyone else.
(d) His self hatred.

5. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?
(a) He was mislead by an older man.
(b) He was mistaken about his attraction because a boy and not a girl was kind to him.
(c) It was not anything he did wrong for it to occur.
(d) He knows it was not real when he was younger.

6. What does Mel ask of Falwell in a rhetorical question?
(a) If Falwell is homosexual.
(b) If Mel can join Falwell's church as an open homosexual.
(c) If citizens' rights are more important than God's laws.
(d) If Falwell thinks he is the only one to know God's mind.

7. Whom does Mel meet on his and Lyla's honeymoon?
(a) A friend from junior high school.
(b) A blond Greek.
(c) An attractive Frenchman.
(d) An older Irish man.

8. How does Mel describe his mother?
(a) Wise and assertive.
(b) She wore the pants in the family.
(c) Very religious but tolerant of other beliefs.
(d) Strong but passive.

9. How does Mel say he appears on the outside in high school?
(a) Happy.
(b) Serene.
(c) Miserable.
(d) Comical.

10. 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) Not trying to become friends with blacks.
(d) Speaking out against civil rights for blacks.

11. Where does Mel begin to frequent?
(a) The bus station.
(b) The monastery near his home.
(c) The large park near his home.
(d) Club Baths.

12. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?
(a) 16.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

13. What does Mel's first film concern?
(a) A man who was in a street gang who becomes a Christian.
(b) A Christian gay man who changes to become heterosexual.
(c) A woman who was in a street gang who becomes a Christian.
(d) A Christian survivor of imprisonment during Vietnam.

14. How does a black shoeshine man influence Falwell?
(a) By asking to join Falwell's church.
(b) By praying with Falwell in the airport.
(c) By denouncing Falwell to the man's shoeshine customers.
(d) By the man's faith in God that justice would be done.

15. How does Mel feel when Lyla asks him to dance?
(a) He has fun.
(b) He feels sinful.
(c) He feels trapped.
(d) He is self conscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is Mel afraid to ask?

2. Why does Mel feel guilty on his honeymoon?

3. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

4. Upon what basis does Mel say homosexuality is attacked today?

5. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?

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