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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. When do Lyla and Mel marry?
(a) When they both turn 25.
(b) After they go through a year of counseling.
(c) When they graduate from college.
(d) Just a few days after Mel returns home from the episode with Ted.

2. What happens to Mel's career during the Seventies?
(a) No change takes place during this decade.
(b) He has a slump and cannot find a job.
(c) His film-making and writing talents took off.
(d) He is ostracized by the film community.

3. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?
(a) He feels attracted to Mel.
(b) He is attracted to the minister.
(c) He wants a divorce because he's gay.
(d) He is thinking of killing himself.

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

5. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?
(a) Seeing a man in the woods with another man.
(b) Swimming naked with a group of boys in third grade.
(c) Dancing in an Indian dress.
(d) Meeting his best friend in the woods unexpectedly.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mel's attraction to men finally lessen?

2. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?

3. What question is Mel afraid to ask?

4. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?

5. What does White not have the ability to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does White worry about on his honeymoon, and how does he solve the problem?

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

6. How does Mel and Lyla's relationship develop?

7. What was Lyla like in middle school?

8. What is Mel's memories of a boy named Darrel at camp?

9. Why does White decide to go to Fuller Theological Seminary?

10. How does Lyla become a Christian?

(see the answer keys)

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