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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mel feel at the church to which Tom takes Mel?
(a) He feels the church members are not actually Christians.
(b) He feels a great sense of welcome.
(c) He feels ostracized.
(d) He does not feel the church offers much in the way of spirituality.

2. What does Rushdoony argue the book of Leviticus authorizes?
(a) The tolerance of homosexuals.
(b) The love of homosexuals.
(c) The imprisonment of homosexuals.
(d) The murder of homosexuals.

3. What evangelist goes to jail before White can help the evangelist write a book?
(a) Jim Bakker.
(b) Jack Perkins.
(c) Tammy Faye Bakker.
(d) None.

4. 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.

5. What does White come to believe about his sexual orientation?
(a) It is acceptable as long as he is celibate.
(b) It is something to celebrate.
(c) It is not God's perfect creation, but it is not condemned.
(d) It is acceptable as long as he is in a monogamous, marriage-like relationship.

6. What does Mel see as one aspect to many of the right-wing Christian leaders for whom Mel works?
(a) A dark and arrogant aspect.
(b) A confused and fearful aspect.
(c) A willingness to change their ideas.
(d) An inept and bungling aspect.

7. What does Mel say David never misses?
(a) His coming out day celebration.
(b) Mass.
(c) A new face at the bar.
(d) A chance to laugh.

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

9. Who is Marty James?
(a) A gay man in the advanced stages of AIDS.
(b) A young man who kills himself for being gay.
(c) A preacher in Dallas who is against homosexuality.
(d) A gay man who advocates isolating AIDS victims.

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

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

12. With whom does Mel say Lyla becomes a co-conspirator?
(a) Mel's pastor.
(b) David.
(c) Mel's psychiatrist.
(d) Michael.

13. What does Falwell and other evangelists use to further their own causes?
(a) The drug culture.
(b) The AIDS epidemic.
(c) Anti-abortion rhetoric.
(d) Anti-homosexual rhetoric.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stories does White relate about gays who have tried to be "cured" of homosexuality.

2. What two evangelists seem to be opposites in personality according to White?

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

4. What is the purpose of White's "Truth in Love" campaign?

5. What group does Falwell form partly through the influence of Francis Schaeffer?

(see the answer keys)

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