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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 stories does White relate about gays who have tried to be "cured" of homosexuality.
(a) He does not know anyone who has tried to be cured.
(b) Ones with tragic results.
(c) Stories about treatment akin to torture to force gays to change.
(d) He admits there are numerous stunning successes of gays being cured.

2. What does White say in his letter to Jerry Falwell on December 24, 1991?
(a) White asks Falwell to meet with him to talk about Falwell's treatment of homosexuality.
(b) White suggests that Falwell needs counseling.
(c) White asks Falwell's forgiveness for pretending to be someone White was not.
(d) White tells Falwell White is contemplating a lawsuit.

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

4. What does White contemplate while taking scuba training?
(a) Meeting other men through Scuba diving.
(b) Nothing that he mentions.
(c) God's mercy.
(d) Suicide.

5. Who is Gary Nixon?
(a) A gay rights lawyer.
(b) A writer.
(c) A baritone in a choir.
(d) A bartender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel say often happens to gay men who stay in the closet?

2. What often makes White tearful during the church services?

3. How does Mel assist right-wing Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell?

4. For how long had Mel tried celibacy?

5. What does Mel see as destroying his family?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tom Montgomery maintain his spirituality despite being angry with the Religious Right?

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

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

5. How does White's parents react to his telling them of his homosexuality?

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

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

8. What is the Truth in Love campaign?

9. Describe White's experience with Tom Montgomery.

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

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