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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. What is Martin Luther King arguing at the time of Lyla and Mel's enrollment in college?
(a) Gays are not born homosexual so they do not deserve civil rights.
(b) Christians need to stay above the political/social fights.
(c) Gay rights were as important as other civil rights.
(d) Christians were obligated to fight social evil.

2. What does Mel regret about his time during the civil rights era?
(a) Not trying to become friends with blacks.
(b) Not pushing homosexual rights when he worked so hard for black Americans.
(c) Sitting on the sidelines.
(d) Speaking out against civil rights for blacks.

3. How does Mel describe his mother?
(a) Wise and assertive.
(b) Strong but passive.
(c) Very religious but tolerant of other beliefs.
(d) She wore the pants in the family.

4. What image does Mel have in his mind from Noni's words?
(a) The gifts of nature.
(b) The light of heaven.
(c) The fires of hell.
(d) None as she was not much of a speaker.

5. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?
(a) Swimming naked with a group of boys in third grade.
(b) Seeing a man in the woods with another man.
(c) Meeting his best friend in the woods unexpectedly.
(d) Dancing in an Indian dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?

2. What does Darrel do that made Mel think about the boy obsessively?

3. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?

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

5. By whom was a friend of Mel's murdered?

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