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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, Adolescence—The Ghost of Fear.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mel pretend when he is younger?
(a) He likes girls.
(b) He is sickly.
(c) He is incompetent.
(d) He is adopted.

2. What does Mel now consider his feelings of love for another man?
(a) Unnatural but not wrong.
(b) He no longer analyzes such things.
(c) Natural but wrong.
(d) God's grace.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel describe himself in high school?

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

3. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

4. What image does Mel have in his mind from Noni's words?

5. How does Mel describe his father?

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