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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 tell his parents after meeting Tom?
(a) Tom is not the right mate for his sister.
(b) Mel is starting a campaign to keep Christians out of politics.
(c) Mel is leaving the Christian church.
(d) Mel is gay.

2. What does Mel decide to sacrifice?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His job.
(c) His writing income.
(d) All sensual pleasures.

3. What often makes White tearful during the church services?
(a) The overwhelming task of redefining Christianity for gays.
(b) The hymns.
(c) The testimonies from gays who feel accepted there.
(d) The many men with AIDS.

4. What happens when White speaks out about the measure in Oregon?
(a) He gains the support of the Jewish community.
(b) He is supported by some of the religious right for whom he had once wrote.
(c) He is sent letters of condemnation by the religious right.
(d) His life is threatened.

5. What does Mel pretend at parties?
(a) He is still with Lyla.
(b) He is religious.
(c) He is straight.
(d) He is happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does White feel he needs to fight back against the religious right?

2. What do Falwell and the other evangelists of his ilk continue to do?

3. What does Falwell and other evangelists use to further their own causes?

4. What do some of the religious right say homosexuals want as far as children are concerned?

5. What does White end forever when he chooses to move?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lyla and Mel finally do? How do the children respond?

2. Describe White's first meeting with Gary Nixon.

3. How does White handle his relationship with David as far as Lyla is concerned?

4. What does White say about attempts by gays to become heterosexual?

5. What worries White about the religious right's rhetoric about homosexuality?

6. Who was Michael Piazza, and what did he offer White?

7. What is the Truth in Love campaign?

8. How does White find peace in his new church in Dallas?

9. What does Mel say that the religious right increasingly claimed and what was one of those claims?

10. What happens one night when White becomes too stressed about his life? What does he do after that?

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