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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 image does Mel have in his mind from Noni's words?
(a) The fires of hell.
(b) None as she was not much of a speaker.
(c) The light of heaven.
(d) The gifts of nature.

2. Who is Noni?
(a) Mel's sister.
(b) Mel's mother.
(c) Mel's aunt.
(d) Mel's grandmother.

3. What does Mel say about Karen K. in retrospect?
(a) She is the woman he should have married.
(b) She was in love with Mel.
(c) She is probably a lesbian.
(d) Nothing.

4. When do Mel and Lyla marry?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1962.
(c) Never.
(d) 1968.

5. By whom was a friend of Mel's murdered?
(a) A member of a biker group.
(b) A gang.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A male prostitute.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel relate to Howard Rutledge?

2. Why does Mel feel guilty on his honeymoon?

3. When does Mel's attraction to men finally lessen?

4. Where do Lyla and Mel enroll for college?

5. At the time of the Civil Rights issues in the United States, what does Falwell believe should be the Christian's focus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Mel White recall about a young seminarian who preached at a church camp Mel attends when he is twelve?

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

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

6. How does Mel describe himself as an adolescent?

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

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

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

10. What was Lyla like in middle school?

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