Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Mel White
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 140 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Mel White
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 140 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. For what does Martin Luther King criticize Christian churches?
(a) Condemning homosexuals.
(b) Enjoying the riches of an unequal society.
(c) Promoting the status quo.
(d) Dragging their feet when it comes to social justice.

2. Whom does Mel meet on his and Lyla's honeymoon?
(a) An attractive Frenchman.
(b) An older Irish man.
(c) A blond Greek.
(d) A friend from junior high school.

3. What does Mel pretend when he is younger?
(a) He is adopted.
(b) He is sickly.
(c) He is incompetent.
(d) He likes girls.

4. What is the name of the first book and movie Mel makes?
(a) Enemies are Friends Waiting for God's Grace.
(b) In the Presence of Mine Enemies.
(c) My Enemies Will Never Smite My Soul.
(d) With God, I Have No Enemies.

5. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?
(a) Speaking out against the church and their stand on homosexuality.
(b) Being gay and acting upon it.
(c) Condemning his gay brother who then killed himself.
(d) Masturbating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel say to Jeffrey about Jeffrey's feelings of guilt?

2. For what organization does Mel work?

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?

4. How does White feel about marrying Lyla?

5. Where do Lyla and Mel enroll for college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lyla become a Christian?

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

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

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

5. How does Mel try to avoid being discovered as being gay?

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

7. What does White say is Martin Luther King's belief about Christian involvement in social change, and how does White feel about his response?

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

9. What movie and book does White produce while serving as the pastor of Evangelical Covenant?

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

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