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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lyla feel Mel is experiencing?
(a) Social pressure.
(b) Retarded adolescence.
(c) Satan's lies.
(d) Insecurity.

2. Where do Gary and White move in 1990?
(a) Monterey.
(b) San Diego.
(c) San Jose.
(d) Laguna Beach.

3. What do many counselors encourage Mel and Lyla to do?
(a) Divorce immediately.
(b) Wait at least a year to separate.
(c) Separate.
(d) Work things out.

4. How does Mel overcompensate once the divorce proceedings commence?
(a) In his role as a father.
(b) In his role as a husband.
(c) He does not overcompensate.
(d) In his role as a pastor.

5. What does Mel decide to sacrifice?
(a) His job.
(b) His writing income.
(c) All sensual pleasures.
(d) Nothing.

6. When do Lyla and Mel file for divorce?
(a) October, 1988.
(b) June, 1980.
(c) March, 1985.
(d) March, 1986

7. What does White contemplate while taking scuba training?
(a) Meeting other men through Scuba diving.
(b) Nothing that he mentions.
(c) Suicide.
(d) God's mercy.

8. Who is Dr. Warren Jones?
(a) Mel's new psychiatrist.
(b) A former professor of Mel's at Fuller.
(c) A televangelist in the local Los Angeles area.
(d) The new pastor at Mel's church.

9. Who is Mel White's first client?
(a) Pat Robertson.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Oral Roberts.
(d) Francis Schaeffer.

10. With the advent of what court case does Jerry Falwell enter the political arena?
(a) Title IX.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Griswold v. Connecticut.
(d) Roe vs. Wade.

11. For what does White praise President Clinton?
(a) Clinton proposed a Federal marriage bill for gays.
(b) He does not praise Clinton.
(c) He makes it possible for gays to serve in the military.
(d) He has many open gays on his staff.

12. What happens a year after White writes Falwell?
(a) White receives a court summons by Falwell.
(b) White is married to Gary by Falwell.
(c) White has still received no reply.
(d) White writes Falwell a second time.

13. What does Mel say often happens to gay men who stay in the closet?
(a) They suffer depression.
(b) They become celibate.
(c) They commit suicide.
(d) They are killed from anonymous sex or AIDS.

14. What group does Pat Robertson form?
(a) Moral Majority.
(b) None.
(c) Christian Coalition.
(d) Christian Brotherhood.

15. Why does White consider a change in jobs and locations?
(a) His family members are all pursuing their own lives.
(b) He is being harassed by co-workers.
(c) He is having health problems because of the climate.
(d) He has been threatened with a law suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mel meet Gary Nixon?

2. What does Robertson and others of the religious right tell White he could do?

3. Who is John Finch?

4. Who calls White and asks him to work on an important book when White is contemplating moving to be with Tom?

5. What does Mel tell his parents after meeting Tom?

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