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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. What did Mel do immediately upon meeting Tom Montgomery?
(a) Asked Tom why God would condemn homosexuals.
(b) Encouraged his sister not to marry the man.
(c) Asked Tom to file a lawsuit about gays and the church.
(d) Had sex with the man.

2. What do many counselors encourage Mel and Lyla to do?
(a) Divorce immediately.
(b) Separate.
(c) Work things out.
(d) Wait at least a year to separate.

3. Who is Marty James?
(a) A gay man who advocates isolating AIDS victims.
(b) A preacher in Dallas who is against homosexuality.
(c) A gay man in the advanced stages of AIDS.
(d) A young man who kills himself for being gay.

4. What is ACT-UP?
(a) A group of homosexuals who believe people should stay in the closet.
(b) A group of Christian trying to get an anti-sodomy law re-enacted.
(c) A radical, homosexual advocacy group.
(d) A group of Christian men against homosexuality.

5. Who is Reverend Michael Piazza?
(a) The leader of the largest gay chuch in America.
(b) A Roman Catholic priest who speaks out against the measure in Oregon.
(c) The leader of the supporters of the measure in Oregon.
(d) The pastor in Los Angeles where White attends church.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Mel say Lyla becomes a co-conspirator?

2. What does Mel say often happens to gay men who stay in the closet?

3. How does Mel think that the very strong Christians seem to be?

4. What two evangelists seem to be opposites in personality according to White?

5. What does Mel see as one aspect to many of the right-wing Christian leaders for whom Mel works?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Michael Piazza, and what did he offer White?

2. What does Mel say that the religious right increasingly claimed and what was one of those claims?

3. What does White say about attempts by gays to become heterosexual?

4. What was Mel White determined to do after the end of his relationship with Tom?

5. How does White handle his relationship with David as far as Lyla is concerned?

6. What is the Truth in Love campaign?

7. Who is David and how does White meet him?

8. Who is R. J. Rushdoony? What is his view about homosexuality and White's thoughts about that?

9. What does the religious right try to push through in Oregon, and what does White do about it?

10. What happens one night when White becomes too stressed about his life? What does he do after that?

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