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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Though I Walk Through the Valley concern?
(a) The idea of grace through works.
(b) The last year in the life of a dying man.
(c) The life of a well-known politician.
(d) The life of a young Vietnamese boy.

2. How does Mel describe Noni?
(a) As shy and insecure.
(b) As open-minded and accepting.
(c) As quiet and humble.
(d) As outgoing and zealous.

3. What does Mel say about Karen K. in retrospect?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She was in love with Mel.
(c) She is the woman he should have married.
(d) She is probably a lesbian.

4. How does White feel about marrying Lyla?
(a) Resigned.
(b) Despondent.
(c) Excited.
(d) Reluctant.

5. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?
(a) To Washington, D. C. to march for civil rights for blacks.
(b) Back home.
(c) A national church choir tour.
(d) To San Francisco to learn more about gay men.

6. 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) Tells Mel he is in love with him.
(b) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.
(c) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(d) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.

7. When does Mel's attraction to men finally lessen?
(a) After a year of treatments.
(b) Several years later.
(c) When Mel learns of AIDS and its stages.
(d) It never lessens.

8. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?
(a) Being gay and acting upon it.
(b) Speaking out against the church and their stand on homosexuality.
(c) Condemning his gay brother who then killed himself.
(d) Masturbating.

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

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

11. What does Mel now consider his feelings of love for another man?
(a) He no longer analyzes such things.
(b) Natural but wrong.
(c) God's grace.
(d) Unnatural but not wrong.

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

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

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

15. When do Mel and Lyla kiss for the first time?
(a) On a small boat.
(b) After the marriage ceremony of Lyla's sister.
(c) On Lyla's 21st birthday.
(d) On Mel's 21st birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel regret about his time during the civil rights era?

2. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?

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

4. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?

5. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

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