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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?
(a) Mel's best friend in high school.
(b) The Roman Catholic priest.
(c) Gordon H.
(d) Mel's second cousin who was gay.

2. Whose autobiography does Mel White write?
(a) Pat Robertson.
(b) No one's.
(c) Jerry Falwell.
(d) Billy Graham.

3. What does the person whom Mel meets at the end of his senior year in high school do when he and Mel are walking to Mel's home one day?
(a) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(b) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.
(c) Tells Mel he is in love with him.
(d) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.

4. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?
(a) To Washington, D. C. to march for civil rights for blacks.
(b) Back home.
(c) A national church choir tour.
(d) To San Francisco to learn more about gay men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?

2. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?

3. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?

4. In what religion was Mel raised?

5. How does Mel describe himself in high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mel afraid to ask the young seminarian and why?

2. What does White relate about Falwell and civil rights?

3. Whom does Mel consider himself a child of as far as religion is concerned?

4. From where does Mel say his self hatred arose?

5. Why does Mel not think it was unethical of him to marry Lyla when he returns from the Choir tour?

6. How does Mel describe his grandmother Noni as far as religion is concerned?

7. Who is Jeffrey S. and what is his story?

8. Where is White called to become the senior pastor, and what does Lyla do at the same church?

9. What does Mel White recall about a young seminarian who preached at a church camp Mel attends when he is twelve?

10. Describe Mel's brief involvement with Ted.

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