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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mel ask of Falwell in a rhetorical question?
(a) If Mel can join Falwell's church as an open 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 Falwell is homosexual.

4. Noni fights the war between ____________.
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) Body and spirit.
(c) Christianity and paganism.
(d) Arrogance and humility.

5. Where does Mel begin to frequent?
(a) The monastery near his home.
(b) The bus station.
(c) The large park near his home.
(d) Club Baths.

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

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

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

9. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 10.

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

11. How does Mel describe himself in high school?
(a) Tall, dark haired, and clumsy.
(b) Short, dark haired, and gifted.
(c) Short, blond, and gifted.
(d) Tall, blond, and gifted.

12. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?
(a) Calls Lyla and tells her Mel is gay.
(b) Tells the camp director that Mel tried to force sex.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Comes after Mel with an ax.

13. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?
(a) He ends up in the state mental hospital.
(b) He becomes an outspoken advocate for gay rights.
(c) He becomes a preacher and marries happily.
(d) He kills himself.

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

15. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?
(a) Gordon H.
(b) The Roman Catholic priest.
(c) Mel's second cousin who was gay.
(d) Mel's best friend in high school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Denny while Mel is still in college?

3. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?

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

5. Who is Noni?

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