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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Peter W.?
(a) Mel's pastor who excoriates Mel for Mel's revelations.
(b) Mel's first real lover.
(c) The third male that Mel has a crush on when younger.
(d) The author of a book about the sexual ways men get together.

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

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

4. Where does Mel meet Lyla Lee?
(a) Middle school.
(b) High school.
(c) At the roller rink.
(d) A college class.

5. What position does Lyla hold in high school?
(a) Senior class president.
(b) None.
(c) Director of social affairs.
(d) Junior class treasurer.

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

7. What is Mel's major field in college?
(a) Communications.
(b) Social Sciences.
(c) Biology.
(d) Sociology.

8. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?
(a) Gordon H.
(b) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.
(c) A gay pastor who is in the closet.
(d) A gay college professor.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Mel's first film concern?
(a) A Christian gay man who changes to become heterosexual.
(b) A Christian survivor of imprisonment during Vietnam.
(c) A woman who was in a street gang who becomes a Christian.
(d) A man who was in a street gang who becomes a Christian.

14. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?
(a) He believes he will earn his way to heaven that way.
(b) He is afraid of others going to hell.
(c) He believes God told him personally to do so.
(d) His parents and family uses guilt to pressure him to do so.

15. The young seminarian invites questions about _________________.
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) The church.
(c) God.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?

3. How does Mel say he appears on the outside in high school?

4. What happens to Mel's career during the Seventies?

5. When does Mel resign his position with Evangelical Covenant Church?

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