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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, 1962-1964, Learning to Tell the Truth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mel describe himself in high school?
(a) Short, blond, and gifted.
(b) Tall, dark haired, and clumsy.
(c) Short, dark haired, and gifted.
(d) Tall, blond, and gifted.

2. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?
(a) Close but Mel could not confide in the man.
(b) He felt alienated from his father.
(c) He felt afraid of his father.
(d) Very close.

3. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?
(a) Gordon H.
(b) A gay pastor who is in the closet.
(c) A gay college professor.
(d) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.

4. Why does Mel feel alienated in high school?
(a) Because of his clumsiness.
(b) Because he is shorter than most of the girls.
(c) Because his father was a preacher.
(d) Because of his attraction to boys.

5. Who is Peter W.?
(a) Mel's pastor who excoriates Mel for Mel's revelations.
(b) The third male that Mel has a crush on when younger.
(c) Mel's first real lover.
(d) The author of a book about the sexual ways men get together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?

2. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

3. Where does Mel meet Lyla Lee?

4. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?

5. When do Mel and Lyla marry?

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