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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 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.

2. In what religion was Mel raised?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Evangelical nondenominational churches.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Roman Catholic.

3. What does Mel say his murdered friend preferred to risk rather than share his feelings?
(a) The depression of celibacy.
(b) His family's rejection.
(c) A failed marriage to a woman.
(d) Anonymous sex.

4. What does the person whom Mel meets at the end of his senior year in high school do when he and Mel are walking to Mel's home one day?
(a) Tells Mel he is in love with him.
(b) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.
(c) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(d) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

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

3. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?

4. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

5. How does Mel feel when Lyla asks him to dance?

(see the answer key)

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