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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does White end forever when he chooses to move?
(a) His insecurity.
(b) His relationship with Gary.
(c) His doubts about the gay lifestyle.
(d) His days in the closet.

2. 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 has been threatened with a law suit.
(d) He is having health problems because of the climate.

3. How do Mel and Lyla's children respond to the divorce?
(a) They think it's a good move.
(b) They think it's not going to last.
(c) They hate it.
(d) They are happy that the fighting will end.

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

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

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

7. Where does Mel meet Gary Nixon?
(a) All Saints Episcopal.
(b) The baths.
(c) MCC.
(d) A gay bar.

8. What does Robertson and others of the religious right tell White he could do?
(a) Come and explain his views of the Bible to them.
(b) Condemn hundreds to hell with his preaching.
(c) Be accepted back into the fold of the religious right.
(d) Be healed of his homosexuality.

9. What often makes White tearful during the church services?
(a) The overwhelming task of redefining Christianity for gays.
(b) The many men with AIDS.
(c) The hymns.
(d) The testimonies from gays who feel accepted there.

10. How does Mel assist right-wing Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell?
(a) Through writing for them.
(b) By canvassing the gay communities.
(c) By helping them with their newsletters.
(d) By doing a film showing the evils of homosexuality.

11. What is the purpose of White's "Truth in Love" campaign?
(a) To bring out other gays.
(b) To war against the religious right.
(c) To effect political pressure on lawmakers.
(d) To present gays with an alternative to mainstream Christianity.

12. Who calls White and asks him to work on an important book when White is contemplating moving to be with Tom?
(a) Pat Robertson.
(b) Jerry Falwell.
(c) Billy Graham.
(d) Oral Roberts.

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

14. What measure does the religious right push in Oregon?
(a) 13.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 11.

15. Where does White take his family in the summer of 1979 for vacation?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) British Columbia.
(c) Europe.
(d) The Bahamas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Lyla and Mel file for divorce?

2. What style of government does the religious right seem to want?

3. Who is David?

4. What does White view as the price of standing for justice after protesting Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy?

5. For how long had Mel tried celibacy?

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