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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, 1990-91, One Last Year of Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what church does Tom take White?
(a) Unitarian.
(b) Metropolitan Community Church.
(c) Congregational.
(d) Unity.

2. What does Lyla insist that Mel and she attend despite Mel's parents' objection?
(a) College graduation.
(b) A family reunion.
(c) Lyla's debutante ball.
(d) The senior prom.

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

4. What does Mel pretend when he is younger?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) He is adopted.
(c) He is sickly.
(d) He likes girls.

5. What does the person whom Mel meets at the end of his senior year in high school do when he and Mel are walking to Mel's home one day?
(a) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(b) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.
(c) Tells Mel he is in love with him.
(d) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does White take his family in the summer of 1979 for vacation?

2. What is the name of the Christian series that Mel created that was quite successful?

3. What does White contemplate while taking scuba training?

4. What is Martin Luther King arguing at the time of Lyla and Mel's enrollment in college?

5. Why does Mel blame Dr. Parker?

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