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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Conley's father ideas about how to cure Conley's homosexuality?

2. What does Smid tell Conley while Conley is in Smid's office?

3. What is the name of Conley's father's family business?

4. What is David reading during his first semester in college?

5. What does Conley pray to himself while at Love In Action?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Love In Action participant, "T" try to do?

2. Why does David challenge Conley to a footrace?

3. What is a genogram?

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

5. What is the name of the person whom Conley meets while moving into his dorm room?

6. Which celebrity does Conley thinks Smid resembles?

7. Who are the twins whom Conley meets in college?

8. Who is Conley's first girlfriend?

9. In what year did Conley begin his ex-gay therapy?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Chapter "Other Boys" discusses Conley's experience in college. Whom does he meet there? What courses does he take? How does Conley react to this new environment? Is it an overall positive or negative experience for him, and why? Write an essay describing how Conley's transition to college affects him. Use examples from the text to support your observations.

Essay Topic 2

Conley describes a few Love In Action participates in detail, though we only know them by the letters of their first names--"J," "S," and "T." Select one of these three participants and describe their journey within Love In Action. Do they seem to be receptive to the program? Does their behavior change? Though you may consider how their experience or attitude influences Conley, focus on the individual of your choosing and his or her own experience. Use evidence from the text to support your claims.

Essay Topic 3

The memoir is a unique genre, in which an individual's autobiography is structured to demonstrate how an experience changed him or her. Memoir is understood to be nonfictional; however, all narrators are reliable to different extents. Write an essay in which you discuss whether Conley is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Use examples from the text to support your response.

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