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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, College—The Ghost of False Hope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mel go after he and Lyla become engaged?
(a) To San Francisco to learn more about gay men.
(b) A national church choir tour.
(c) Back home.
(d) To Washington, D. C. to march for civil rights for blacks.

2. What does the person whom Mel meets at the end of his senior year in high school do when he and Mel are walking to Mel's home one day?
(a) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(b) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.
(c) Tells Mel he is in love with him.
(d) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.

3. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He becomes a preacher and marries happily.
(c) He ends up in the state mental hospital.
(d) He becomes an outspoken advocate for gay rights.

4. What caused Noni's parents to conceive her?
(a) Her sister Ruth is killed.
(b) It was an accident.
(c) Nothing is mentioned pertaining to Noni's birth.
(d) God told them to do so.

5. What does Mel say his murdered friend preferred to risk rather than share his feelings?
(a) The depression of celibacy.
(b) A failed marriage to a woman.
(c) His family's rejection.
(d) Anonymous sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel say he appears on the outside in high school?

2. In what capacity does Mel serve in his high school?

3. What is Martin Luther King arguing at the time of Lyla and Mel's enrollment in college?

4. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

5. For what does Martin Luther King criticize Christian churches?

(see the answer key)

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