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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 happens to Jeffrey eventually?
(a) He becomes a preacher and marries happily.
(b) He becomes an outspoken advocate for gay rights.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He ends up in the state mental hospital.

2. What caused Noni's parents to conceive her?
(a) Her sister Ruth is killed.
(b) Nothing is mentioned pertaining to Noni's birth.
(c) It was an accident.
(d) God told them to do so.

3. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?
(a) Meeting his best friend in the woods unexpectedly.
(b) Swimming naked with a group of boys in third grade.
(c) Seeing a man in the woods with another man.
(d) Dancing in an Indian dress.

4. When do Mel and Lyla marry?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1968.
(c) Never.
(d) 1966.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel worry would happen in the locker room?

2. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?

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

4. For what does Martin Luther King criticize Christian churches?

5. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?

(see the answer key)

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