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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 comparison does White continue to point out?
(a) Christians of different denominations.
(b) The religious right and Nazi Germany.
(c) Gay couples and heterosexual couples.
(d) Gays and blacks fighting for rights.

2. What does Mel say his family could not do?
(a) Meet all his needs.
(b) Give him any insight.
(c) Accept him.
(d) Protect him.

3. What does the religious right begin doing concerning homosexuality?
(a) Preaching acceptance.
(b) Admitting that they were wrong.
(c) Making increasingly false and outrageous claims.
(d) Lessening preaching about homosexuality.

4. Who is Marty James?
(a) A preacher in Dallas who is against homosexuality.
(b) A gay man who advocates isolating AIDS victims.
(c) A young man who kills himself for being gay.
(d) A gay man in the advanced stages of AIDS.

5. Where does White take his family in the summer of 1979 for vacation?
(a) Europe.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) British Columbia.
(d) Hawaii.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does White praise President Clinton?

2. Why does White consider a change in jobs and locations?

3. To what group does White see some parallels to the religious right?

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

5. What happens a year after White writes Falwell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What group does Jerry Falwell form, and who influenced his founding of it?

2. Who is David and how does White meet him?

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

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

5. What happens to end White's relationship with Tom Montgomery?

6. What did White plan to do while scuba diving in Hawaii? What changed his mind?

7. How do Mel and Lyla stay connected, and what do Christian leaders say about White's new living situation? What does Lyla say in response to the Christian leaders?

8. Where does White take his family in the summer of 1979, and how does he feel about the time spent there with Lyla?

9. What does the religious right try to push through in Oregon, and what does White do about it?

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

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