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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 is offered to White by a church in Dallas?
(a) Financial support for White to continue writing for gay writes.
(b) Financial support until White can find another job.
(c) The position of dean of their cathedral.
(d) Financial support to defeat the measure in Oregon.

2. What did White worry about concerning his family?
(a) They would be constantly harassed.
(b) They would not accept him as a gay man.
(c) His coming out would destroy them.
(d) They would turn away from the church.

3. When do Lyla and Mel file for divorce?
(a) June, 1980.
(b) March, 1985.
(c) October, 1988.
(d) March, 1986

4. What do many counselors encourage Mel and Lyla to do?
(a) Work things out.
(b) Wait at least a year to separate.
(c) Divorce immediately.
(d) Separate.

5. Why does White consider a change in jobs and locations?
(a) He is being harassed by co-workers.
(b) He has been threatened with a law suit.
(c) His family members are all pursuing their own lives.
(d) He is having health problems because of the climate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mel do immediately upon meeting Tom Montgomery?

2. What book does Robertson want Mel's help to write?

3. Who is Dr. Warren Jones?

4. To what church does Tom take White?

5. What group does Pat Robertson form?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is R. J. Rushdoony? What is his view about homosexuality and White's thoughts about that?

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

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

4. Why does White write a letter to Falwell? What is Falwell's response?

5. 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?

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

7. What is the Truth in Love campaign?

8. What was Mel White determined to do after the end of his relationship with Tom?

9. Who does White help in the 1970s among the rising Christian political movement?

10. What does White say about working with Falwell on the book, If I Should Die Before I Wake?

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