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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven, 1984-90, Giving Up the Ghost.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What African-American man does Mel meet in Los Angeles?
(a) Peter.
(b) Mark.
(c) John.
(d) Herbert.

2. How does Howard Rutledge survive a very difficult time?
(a) Pretending he is a Christian.
(b) His faith in God.
(c) His belief in himself.
(d) Pretending he is straight.

3. What does Mel say often happens to gay men who stay in the closet?
(a) They are killed from anonymous sex or AIDS.
(b) They commit suicide.
(c) They suffer depression.
(d) They become celibate.

4. What book does Robertson want Mel's help to write?
(a) Dates with God and America.
(b) America's Land of too much Freedom.
(c) America's Dates with Destiny.
(d) Destiny and God.

5. What happens to Mel's career during the Seventies?
(a) His film-making and writing talents took off.
(b) He has a slump and cannot find a job.
(c) No change takes place during this decade.
(d) He is ostracized by the film community.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel say to Jeffrey about Jeffrey's feelings of guilt?

2. What position does White assume at Evangelical Covenant Church?

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

4. What is one book Mel writes soon after producing Though I Walk Through the Valley?

5. When do Mel and Lyla kiss for the first time?

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