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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?
(a) He is attracted to the minister.
(b) He feels attracted to Mel.
(c) He is thinking of killing himself.
(d) He wants a divorce because he's gay.

2. 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) Seeing a man in the woods with another man.
(d) Swimming naked with a group of boys in third grade.

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

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

5. Why does Mel think he was not being unfair to Lyla to marry her?
(a) He does think he is being unfair.
(b) He is forced to such action by a condemning society.
(c) He honestly loves her.
(d) He thinks she is a lesbian and not honest with him.

6. For what organization does Mel work?
(a) Portland Gay Rights.
(b) Portland Youth for Christ.
(c) PFLAG.
(d) NAACP.

7. What does Mel say to Jeffrey about Jeffrey's feelings of guilt?
(a) His brother made his own choices.
(b) If Jeffrey feels strongly about something, he should speak his mind.
(c) Masturbation is not a sin.
(d) Being gay is acceptable, but Jeffrey needs to be celibate.

8. What question is Mel afraid to ask?
(a) Why God does not allow men to love men.
(b) Why he is only attracted to males.
(c) Why sex is so difficult to discuss.
(d) If homosexuals are really going to hell.

9. What does Mel not know the origins of?
(a) His self confidence.
(b) His self hatred.
(c) His desire to know God.
(d) His desire to excel above everyone else.

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

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

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

13. What does Mel say did not exist at the time of his attending church camp?
(a) Information for young gay boys.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Gay rights.
(d) The religious right.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Karl Barth?

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

3. How is Mel able to perform sexually with Lyla?

4. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?

5. For what is Falwell known concerning the Civil Rights Act?

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