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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. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?
(a) He becomes an outspoken advocate for gay rights.
(b) He becomes a preacher and marries happily.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He ends up in the state mental hospital.

2. How does Mel describe his father?
(a) An aggressive but wise man.
(b) A self-made man.
(c) An agnostic.
(d) A kind, gentle giant.

3. When do Mel and Lyla begin dating?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1952.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?

2. What year is it when Mel is in the church camp listening to the young seminarian preach?

3. What is one reason that Mel finds for which Sodom was not destroyed?

4. How does Mel say he appears on the outside in high school?

5. What is Mel's major field in college?

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