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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. How does Conley feel at the prospect of abandoning his parents?
(a) He feels called by God to abandon them.
(b) He feels he has no other option.
(c) It is worse than suicide.
(d) He is excited.

2. What does David ask Conley?
(a) If he would rather have the power of flight or invisibility.
(b) If he has any pets.
(c) If he loves his mother more than his father.
(d) If he is attracted to men or women.

3. Why does Smid correct Conley's stance in the book's first chapter?
(a) His navel is showing.
(b) He is standing akimbo.
(c) He is slouching.
(d) He looks like a Cro-Magnon.

4. What is Wild Thing's real name?
(a) John.
(b) Wyatt.
(c) Jeff.
(d) George.

5. What happened to Conley's father when he was young?
(a) He received third-degree burns from an accident.
(b) He was bullied.
(c) He tried to commit suicide.
(d) He was accused of being gay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Conley's program?

2. According to Conley's Psychology 101 class, what is the secret to human beauty?

3. What does Conley wear to the jail?

4. How many calories a day does Conley eat the summer before college?

5. What does Conley say of Brother Stevens' daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What church do the Love In Action groups visit?

2. Who was the only openly gay person whom Conley met before his therapy began at LIA?

3. How do Garrad's parents find out about his homosexuality?

4. What are two items taken from Conley at the reception of Love In Action?

5. What is a genogram?

6. Which relative do Conley's parents go and visit in a flashback?

7. To which mythological character from Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" does Conley liken himself?

8. Why does Conley's mother sleep in a separate room from his father?

9. Where does Conley's father bring on their trip at the end of Part I for those to whom they are preaching?

10. Who joins Conley and his father at their destination in Chapter 6, "Prisoner's Cinema"?

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