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

2. What does Mel's first film concern?
(a) A Christian survivor of imprisonment during Vietnam.
(b) A Christian gay man who changes to become heterosexual.
(c) A woman who was in a street gang who becomes a Christian.
(d) A man who was in a street gang who becomes a Christian.

3. What is Martin Luther King arguing at the time of Lyla and Mel's enrollment in college?
(a) Christians were obligated to fight social evil.
(b) Christians need to stay above the political/social fights.
(c) Gay rights were as important as other civil rights.
(d) Gays are not born homosexual so they do not deserve civil rights.

4. Where does Mel begin to frequent?
(a) The monastery near his home.
(b) The large park near his home.
(c) Club Baths.
(d) The bus station.

5. How does Mel relate to Howard Rutledge?
(a) Mel feels that God is the only way he is able to live.
(b) Mel feels trapped just as Rutledge did.
(c) Mel believes Howard is gay.
(d) Mel feels conflicted as Rutledge does.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Lyla and Mel file for divorce?

2. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?

3. What does Mel regret about his time during the civil rights era?

4. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?

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

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