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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) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

2. In what field does Mel begin a doctorate?
(a) Communications.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Education.

3. What does Mel use in order to cure his homosexuality?
(a) Shock treatements.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Drawings of pictures of hell.
(d) Prayer and therapy.

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

5. When do Mel and Lyla kiss for the first time?
(a) On a small boat.
(b) After the marriage ceremony of Lyla's sister.
(c) On Mel's 21st birthday.
(d) On Lyla's 21st birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does Mel have in his mind from Noni's words?

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

3. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?

4. Who is Noni?

5. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mel write about Johnny B.?

2. Why does White decide to go to Fuller Theological Seminary?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Mel's brief involvement with Ted.

8. From where does Mel say his self hatred arose?

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

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

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