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

2. How does Mel describe his mother?
(a) Wise and assertive.
(b) Very religious but tolerant of other beliefs.
(c) Strong but passive.
(d) She wore the pants in the family.

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

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

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

6. What year is it when Mel is in the church camp listening to the young seminarian preach?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1952.

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

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

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

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

11. Who is Mel's second boyhood male crush?
(a) Arthur B.
(b) Johnny B.
(c) John J.
(d) Steve J.

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

13. When do Mel and Lyla begin dating?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1952.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Noni's parents to conceive her?

2. Why does Mel feel guilty on his honeymoon?

3. What is Mel's response to the movie, Zorba the Greek?

4. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?

5. Who is Peter W.?

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