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

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

3. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?
(a) He feels attracted to Mel.
(b) He wants a divorce because he's gay.
(c) He is thinking of killing himself.
(d) He is attracted to the minister.

4. What does Mel regret about his time during the civil rights era?
(a) Not pushing homosexual rights when he worked so hard for black Americans.
(b) Speaking out against civil rights for blacks.
(c) Sitting on the sidelines.
(d) Not trying to become friends with blacks.

5. What does Mel say did not exist at the time of his attending church camp?
(a) Information for young gay boys.
(b) Gay rights.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) The religious right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mel think he was not being unfair to Lyla to marry her?

2. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?

3. What happens to Denny while Mel is still in college?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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