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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mel attend seminary?
(a) Howell.
(b) Fuller.
(c) Canooga.
(d) Pacific.

2. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?
(a) The diocese bishop.
(b) The Board of Education.
(c) No one.
(d) Parents of campers.

3. In what capacity does Mel serve in his high school?
(a) President of the Honor Society.
(b) Captain of the football team.
(c) Captain of the basketball team.
(d) Student body president.

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

5. How does Mel feel when Lyla asks him to dance?
(a) He feels sinful.
(b) He is self conscious.
(c) He has fun.
(d) He feels trapped.

6. How does Mel relate to Howard Rutledge?
(a) Mel feels that God is the only way he is able to live.
(b) Mel feels conflicted as Rutledge does.
(c) Mel believes Howard is gay.
(d) Mel feels trapped just as Rutledge did.

7. By whom was a friend of Mel's murdered?
(a) A male prostitute.
(b) A gang.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A member of a biker group.

8. When do Lyla and Mel marry?
(a) When they graduate from college.
(b) When they both turn 25.
(c) After they go through a year of counseling.
(d) Just a few days after Mel returns home from the episode with Ted.

9. Why does Mel feel guilty on his honeymoon?
(a) He now realizes he is definitely gay.
(b) His attraction to the man he meets.
(c) He has had several episodes of anonymous sex with men while on his honeymoon.
(d) He is pretending sexual interest in Lyla.

10. Whose symbolic child does Mel consider himself to be?
(a) The Religious Right.
(b) The Hippies of the sixties.
(c) The Radical Left.
(d) No particular group.

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

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

13. What African-American man does Mel meet in Los Angeles?
(a) Herbert.
(b) John.
(c) Mark.
(d) Peter.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?

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

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

4. What does Mel say his murdered friend preferred to risk rather than share his feelings?

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

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