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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. Whose symbolic child does Mel consider himself to be?
(a) No particular group.
(b) The Radical Left.
(c) The Religious Right.
(d) The Hippies of the sixties.

2. What year is it when Mel is in the church camp listening to the young seminarian preach?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1963.

3. What does Lyla insist that Mel and she attend despite Mel's parents' objection?
(a) A family reunion.
(b) College graduation.
(c) Lyla's debutante ball.
(d) The senior prom.

4. What does Darrel do that made Mel think about the boy obsessively?
(a) Dances with Mel.
(b) Touches Mel while they were swimming.
(c) Says mean things to Mel.
(d) Kisses Mel.

5. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?
(a) Gordon H.
(b) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.
(c) A gay college professor.
(d) A gay pastor who is in the closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lyla and Mel enroll for college?

2. What does Mel believe about himself while in college?

3. When do Mel and Lyla marry?

4. By whom was a friend of Mel's murdered?

5. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?

(see the answer key)

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