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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mel do in front of Lyla one night after they have a fight?
(a) Attempts to slash his wrists.
(b) Tells her he is leaving her.
(c) Calls his psychiatrist.
(d) Attempts sex with her.

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

4. What does Mel see as destroying his family?
(a) His dishonesty.
(b) His waffling.
(c) His lust.
(d) His religion.

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

6. What happens when White speaks out about the measure in Oregon?
(a) He gains the support of the Jewish community.
(b) He is sent letters of condemnation by the religious right.
(c) His life is threatened.
(d) He is supported by some of the religious right for whom he had once wrote.

7. What book does Robertson want Mel's help to write?
(a) America's Land of too much Freedom.
(b) Destiny and God.
(c) America's Dates with Destiny.
(d) Dates with God and America.

8. What did Mel do immediately upon meeting Tom Montgomery?
(a) Asked Tom to file a lawsuit about gays and the church.
(b) Encouraged his sister not to marry the man.
(c) Had sex with the man.
(d) Asked Tom why God would condemn homosexuals.

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

10. Who is David?
(a) An elderly, retired Catholic priest.
(b) A Spanish-American.
(c) A young Greek man.
(d) A reformed bookie.

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

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

13. Who is Phyliss Hart?
(a) A psychologist at Fuller Theological Seminary.
(b) Lyla's best friend and confidante.
(c) A theologian.
(d) The woman who saves White when he is drowning in Hawaii.

14. What does White do for Oliver North?
(a) Writes speeches for him.
(b) Gives him a large contribution for his legal defense.
(c) Gives him a reference to Falwell.
(d) Helps him write his autobiography.

15. How does Mel think that the very strong Christians seem to be?
(a) Less rigid about many issues.
(b) Indifferent to the way the religious right was exploiting people emotionally.
(c) More strongly anti-gay.
(d) More accepting of gays.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does White praise President Clinton?

2. Who are Philip and Janet Yancey?

3. Where is White interviewed several times when he comes out?

4. With whom does White work on If I Should Die Before I Wake?

5. What often makes White tearful during the church services?

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