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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, 1990-91, One Last Year of Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mel decide to sacrifice?
(a) His writing income.
(b) His job.
(c) Nothing.
(d) All sensual pleasures.

2. How does Mel assist right-wing Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell?
(a) By doing a film showing the evils of homosexuality.
(b) By canvassing the gay communities.
(c) By helping them with their newsletters.
(d) Through writing for them.

3. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?
(a) He is afraid of others going to hell.
(b) He believes God told him personally to do so.
(c) His parents and family uses guilt to pressure him to do so.
(d) He believes he will earn his way to heaven that way.

4. What do some of the religious right say homosexuals want as far as children are concerned?
(a) To help them overcome their feelings of self hatred.
(b) To recruit them to the homosexual lifestyle.
(c) To exploit them sexually.
(d) To show them how to avoid becoming ensnared into the homosexual life.

5. How does Mel overcompensate once the divorce proceedings commence?
(a) He does not overcompensate.
(b) In his role as a father.
(c) In his role as a husband.
(d) In his role as a pastor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Howard Rutledge survive a very difficult time?

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

3. When do Lyla and Mel marry?

4. What does Mel not know the origins of?

5. What evangelist goes to jail before White can help the evangelist write a book?

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