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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. Whose symbolic child does Mel consider himself to be?
(a) The Hippies of the sixties.
(b) The Religious Right.
(c) The Radical Left.
(d) No particular group.

2. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?
(a) He is afraid of others going to hell.
(b) He believes God told him personally to do so.
(c) His parents and family uses guilt to pressure him to do so.
(d) He believes he will earn his way to heaven that way.

3. How does Mel describe himself in high school?
(a) Short, dark haired, and gifted.
(b) Short, blond, and gifted.
(c) Tall, blond, and gifted.
(d) Tall, dark haired, and clumsy.

4. In what religion was Mel raised?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Evangelical nondenominational churches.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Roman Catholic.

5. What is the name of the Christian series that Mel created that was quite successful?
(a) Chester Goes to Pray.
(b) Charlie Churchman.
(c) Mel did not do a series.
(d) Jesus' Life and Times.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mel's first film concern?

3. When do Mel and Lyla begin dating?

4. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?

5. What does Mel not know the origins of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Mel and Lyla met.

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

4. Who is Peter W.? What does White write about the young man?

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

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

7. What does Mel write about Johnny B.?

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

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

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

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