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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 Mel say his murdered friend preferred to risk rather than share his feelings?
(a) The depression of celibacy.
(b) Anonymous sex.
(c) His family's rejection.
(d) A failed marriage to a woman.

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

3. For what organization does Mel work?
(a) Portland Gay Rights.
(b) PFLAG.
(c) NAACP.
(d) Portland Youth for Christ.

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

5. What is one reason that Mel finds for which Sodom was not destroyed?
(a) Homosexual acts of its citizens.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A volcano.
(d) Bigotry.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?

2. What is the name of the first book and movie Mel makes?

3. What does Mel's first film concern?

4. How does Mel describe himself in high school?

5. What does Mel ask of Falwell in a rhetorical question?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Mel and Lyla met.

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

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

4. How does Lyla become a Christian?

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

6. What does White start to pursue concerning his feelings of attraction to other men?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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