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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Lyla and Mel marry?
(a) Just a few days after Mel returns home from the episode with Ted.
(b) After they go through a year of counseling.
(c) When they both turn 25.
(d) When they graduate from college.

2. What position does White assume at Evangelical Covenant Church?
(a) Choir Director.
(b) Senior Pastor.
(c) Teen Programs Director.
(d) Junior Pastor.

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

4. How does White feel about marrying Lyla?
(a) Despondent.
(b) Reluctant.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Excited.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mel meet Lyla Lee?

2. How does Mel describe his father?

3. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?

4. What does Though I Walk Through the Valley concern?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. From where does Mel say his self hatred arose?

2. What was Lyla like in middle school?

3. How does Mel and Lyla's relationship develop?

4. What does Mel White recall about a young seminarian who preached at a church camp Mel attends when he is twelve?

5. How does Mel describe himself as an adolescent?

6. Whom does Mel consider himself a child of as far as religion is concerned?

7. Describe Mel's brief involvement with Ted.

8. Describe how Mel and Lyla met.

9. What happens to Mel's younger brother Denny?

10. What is Mel's memories of a boy named Darrel at camp?

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