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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. Who is Noni?
(a) Mel's mother.
(b) Mel's grandmother.
(c) Mel's sister.
(d) Mel's aunt.

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

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

4. What does Lyla go to school to earn?
(a) A degree in nursing.
(b) Certification as a dental technician.
(c) A degree in education.
(d) A degree in social work.

5. What does Mel worry would happen in the locker room?
(a) He would be caught staring at the other boys.
(b) He would be bullied.
(c) He would be caught making out with another boy.
(d) He would get an erection.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?

3. When do Lyla and Mel marry?

4. Upon what basis does Mel say homosexuality is attacked today?

5. What college does Mel attend for his doctorate?

(see the answer key)

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