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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mel pretend when he is younger?
(a) He is adopted.
(b) He is incompetent.
(c) He is sickly.
(d) He likes girls.
2. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?
(a) Meeting his best friend in the woods unexpectedly.
(b) Seeing a man in the woods with another man.
(c) Dancing in an Indian dress.
(d) Swimming naked with a group of boys in third grade.
3. What happens to Mel's career during the Seventies?
(a) No change takes place during this decade.
(b) His film-making and writing talents took off.
(c) He has a slump and cannot find a job.
(d) He is ostracized by the film community.
4. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?
(a) He was mislead by an older man.
(b) He knows it was not real when he was younger.
(c) It was not anything he did wrong for it to occur.
(d) He was mistaken about his attraction because a boy and not a girl was kind to him.
5. What does Mel say did not exist at the time of his attending church camp?
(a) Information for young gay boys.
(b) Gay rights.
(c) The religious right.
(d) Homosexuality.
6. For what is Falwell known concerning the Civil Rights Act?
(a) Falwell strongly opposed the Civil Rights Act at first.
(b) Falwell was neutral on the Civil Rights Act.
(c) Falwell asked his congressman to sponsor the bill.
(d) Falwell circulated a petition for passage of the Act.
7. How does Mel describe his mother?
(a) She wore the pants in the family.
(b) Very religious but tolerant of other beliefs.
(c) Strong but passive.
(d) Wise and assertive.
8. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?
(a) Back home.
(b) To Washington, D. C. to march for civil rights for blacks.
(c) A national church choir tour.
(d) To San Francisco to learn more about gay men.
9. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?
(a) Comes after Mel with an ax.
(b) Tells the camp director that Mel tried to force sex.
(c) Calls Lyla and tells her Mel is gay.
(d) Nothing.
10. What does Lyla insist that Mel and she attend despite Mel's parents' objection?
(a) A family reunion.
(b) The senior prom.
(c) College graduation.
(d) Lyla's debutante ball.
11. Whom does Mel meet on his and Lyla's honeymoon?
(a) A friend from junior high school.
(b) An attractive Frenchman.
(c) An older Irish man.
(d) A blond Greek.
12. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He becomes a preacher and marries happily.
(c) He becomes an outspoken advocate for gay rights.
(d) He ends up in the state mental hospital.
13. Whose symbolic child does Mel consider himself to be?
(a) The Radical Left.
(b) The Hippies of the sixties.
(c) The Religious Right.
(d) No particular group.
14. What does Mel say about Karen K. in retrospect?
(a) She is probably a lesbian.
(b) She was in love with Mel.
(c) She is the woman he should have married.
(d) Nothing.
15. How does Mel say he appears on the outside in high school?
(a) Happy.
(b) Serene.
(c) Miserable.
(d) Comical.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?
2. Where do Lyla and Mel enroll for college?
3. When does Mel resign his position with Evangelical Covenant Church?
4. Who is Noni?
5. What year is it when Mel is in the church camp listening to the young seminarian preach?
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