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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. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?
(a) The preacher does not bring up the topic.
(b) It is best to wait until one is married for sexual pleasure.
(c) It is a gift from God.
(d) It is always wrong.

2. Where does Mel attend seminary?
(a) Howell.
(b) Fuller.
(c) Pacific.
(d) Canooga.

3. What does Mel now consider his feelings of love for another man?
(a) Natural but wrong.
(b) He no longer analyzes such things.
(c) Unnatural but not wrong.
(d) God's grace.

4. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?
(a) He felt afraid of his father.
(b) He felt alienated from his father.
(c) Very close.
(d) Close but Mel could not confide in the man.

5. What does Mel believe about himself while in college?
(a) He is straight and resisting temptation.
(b) He is proud and gay.
(c) He would understand everything better after becoming educated.
(d) He could be gay and still have a good marriage with Lyla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mel meet Lyla Lee?

2. Whose autobiography does Mel White write?

3. How does Mel describe Noni?

4. Upon what basis does Mel say homosexuality is attacked today?

5. Who is Noni?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to White's career in the 1970s?

2. Where does White begin meeting gay men, and who is the "Dr. Smith" that White meets this way?

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

4. Describe how Mel and Lyla met.

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

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

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

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

9. How does Mel describe himself as an adolescent?

10. How does Lyla become a Christian?

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