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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 word(s) sets Mel to researching the Bible about homosexuality.?
(a) Abomination.
(b) Shall not.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Sodomite.

2. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?
(a) It was not anything he did wrong for it to occur.
(b) He was mistaken about his attraction because a boy and not a girl was kind to him.
(c) He knows it was not real when he was younger.
(d) He was mislead by an older man.

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

4. What does Mel not know the origins of?
(a) His desire to know God.
(b) His self confidence.
(c) His desire to excel above everyone else.
(d) His self hatred.

5. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel now consider his feelings of love for another man?

2. How does Mel describe himself in high school?

3. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?

4. Noni fights the war between ____________.

5. Who is Mel's second boyhood male crush?

(see the answer key)

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