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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. In what religion was Mel raised?
(a) Evangelical nondenominational churches.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Roman Catholic.

2. 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) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.
(d) A gay college professor.

3. What position does Lyla hold in high school?
(a) None.
(b) Senior class president.
(c) Junior class treasurer.
(d) Director of social affairs.

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

5. What is Mel's major field in college?
(a) Communications.
(b) Social Sciences.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Lyla insist that Mel and she attend despite Mel's parents' objection?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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