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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. How old is Mel White when he hears a young seminarian preach at a church camp?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

2. When does Mel's attraction to men finally lessen?
(a) After a year of treatments.
(b) Several years later.
(c) When Mel learns of AIDS and its stages.
(d) It never lessens.

3. Where do Lyla and Mel enroll for college?
(a) Los Altos Community.
(b) Stanford.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Warner Pacific.

4. How does Mel describe his mother?
(a) Very religious but tolerant of other beliefs.
(b) Strong but passive.
(c) Wise and assertive.
(d) She wore the pants in the family.

5. For what is Falwell known concerning the Civil Rights Act?
(a) Falwell strongly opposed the Civil Rights Act at first.
(b) Falwell was neutral on the Civil Rights Act.
(c) Falwell circulated a petition for passage of the Act.
(d) Falwell asked his congressman to sponsor the bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel feel when Lyla asks him to dance?

2. What is Mel's response to the movie, Zorba the Greek?

3. Why does Mel blame Dr. Parker?

4. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

5. How does a black shoeshine man influence Falwell?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jim Morgan broaden White's understanding of God?

2. What does Mel write about Johnny B.?

3. What does Mel say about whom he might blame for his homosexuality and his feeling miserable as an adolescent?

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

5. Why does Mel think his grandmother Noni was so zealous?

6. How does Lyla become a Christian?

7. What do White and Lyla do when they return from their honeymoon?

8. Describe how Mel and Lyla met.

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

10. What happens to Mel's younger brother Denny?

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