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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Noni's parents to conceive her?
(a) Her sister Ruth is killed.
(b) It was an accident.
(c) God told them to do so.
(d) Nothing is mentioned pertaining to Noni's birth.

2. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?
(a) He was mislead by an older man.
(b) It was not anything he did wrong for it to occur.
(c) He was mistaken about his attraction because a boy and not a girl was kind to him.
(d) He knows it was not real when he was younger.

3. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?
(a) He believes God told him personally to do so.
(b) He is afraid of others going to hell.
(c) He believes he will earn his way to heaven that way.
(d) His parents and family uses guilt to pressure him to do so.

4. When do Mel and Lyla marry?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1962.
(c) Never.
(d) 1968.

5. What does Mel believe about himself while in college?
(a) He would understand everything better after becoming educated.
(b) He is proud and gay.
(c) He could be gay and still have a good marriage with Lyla.
(d) He is straight and resisting temptation.

6. What happens to Denny while Mel is still in college?
(a) He goes to Vietnam and is killed.
(b) He drops out of communication with his family.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He dies from complications of an accident.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who is Karl Barth?
(a) A professor in Mel's seminary.
(b) A Christian theologian.
(c) Mel's hero.
(d) Mel's therapist.

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

14. What image does Mel have in his mind from Noni's words?
(a) The fires of hell.
(b) The gifts of nature.
(c) None as she was not much of a speaker.
(d) The light of heaven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is Mel afraid to ask?

2. By whom was a friend of Mel's murdered?

3. What does Mel's first film concern?

4. How does Mel describe Noni?

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

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