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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, College—The Ghost of False Hope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason that Mel finds for which Sodom was not destroyed?
(a) A volcano.
(b) Homosexual acts of its citizens.
(c) Bigotry.
(d) An earthquake.

2. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?
(a) Very close.
(b) Close but Mel could not confide in the man.
(c) He felt afraid of his father.
(d) He felt alienated from his father.

3. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?
(a) To Washington, D. C. to march for civil rights for blacks.
(b) To San Francisco to learn more about gay men.
(c) Back home.
(d) A national church choir tour.

4. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?
(a) He is attracted to the minister.
(b) He feels attracted to Mel.
(c) He is thinking of killing himself.
(d) He wants a divorce because he's gay.

5. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?
(a) He knows it was not real when he was younger.
(b) He was mistaken about his attraction because a boy and not a girl was kind to him.
(c) He was mislead by an older man.
(d) It was not anything he did wrong for it to occur.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel say he appears on the outside in high school?

2. What does Mel have to restrain when at camps?

3. How does Mel describe Noni?

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

5. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?

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