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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mel ask of Falwell in a rhetorical question?
(a) If Falwell is homosexual.
(b) If citizens' rights are more important than God's laws.
(c) If Falwell thinks he is the only one to know God's mind.
(d) If Mel can join Falwell's church as an open homosexual.

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

3. What does Mel use in order to cure his homosexuality?
(a) Shock treatements.
(b) Prayer and therapy.
(c) Drawings of pictures of hell.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

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

7. At the time of the Civil Rights issues in the United States, what does Falwell believe should be the Christian's focus?
(a) Memorizing the Bible.
(b) Getting their relationship to God right.
(c) Feeding the world.
(d) Winning souls.

8. Who is Noni?
(a) Mel's mother.
(b) Mel's sister.
(c) Mel's aunt.
(d) Mel's grandmother.

9. What is the name of the Christian series that Mel created that was quite successful?
(a) Charlie Churchman.
(b) Chester Goes to Pray.
(c) Jesus' Life and Times.
(d) Mel did not do a series.

10. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?
(a) Gordon H.
(b) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.
(c) A gay college professor.
(d) A gay pastor who is in the closet.

11. Upon what basis does Mel say homosexuality is attacked today?
(a) Hatred of those who are different.
(b) Fear of God's punishment.
(c) Gross misinterpretations of Scripture.
(d) Ignorance about why people are homosexual.

12. What position does White assume at Evangelical Covenant Church?
(a) Junior Pastor.
(b) Choir Director.
(c) Teen Programs Director.
(d) Senior Pastor.

13. Why does Mel feel guilty on his honeymoon?
(a) He is pretending sexual interest in Lyla.
(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 now realizes he is definitely gay.

14. What does Darrel do that made Mel think about the boy obsessively?
(a) Touches Mel while they were swimming.
(b) Says mean things to Mel.
(c) Kisses Mel.
(d) Dances with Mel.

15. Why does Mel feel alienated in high school?
(a) Because of his clumsiness.
(b) Because his father was a preacher.
(c) Because of his attraction to boys.
(d) Because he is shorter than most of the girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what organization does Mel work?

2. What does Mel say did not exist at the time of his attending church camp?

3. How does White feel about marrying Lyla?

4. What word(s) sets Mel to researching the Bible about homosexuality.?

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

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