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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 does Lyla insist that Mel and she attend despite Mel's parents' objection?
(a) The senior prom.
(b) Lyla's debutante ball.
(c) A family reunion.
(d) College graduation.

2. What does Mel worry would happen in the locker room?
(a) He would get an erection.
(b) He would be bullied.
(c) He would be caught making out with another boy.
(d) He would be caught staring at the other boys.

3. Who is Peter W.?
(a) Mel's first real lover.
(b) Mel's pastor who excoriates Mel for Mel's revelations.
(c) The author of a book about the sexual ways men get together.
(d) The third male that Mel has a crush on when younger.

4. Who is Mel's second boyhood male crush?
(a) Steve J.
(b) John J.
(c) Johnny B.
(d) Arthur B.

5. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?
(a) He is afraid of others going to hell.
(b) He believes God told him personally to do so.
(c) His parents and family uses guilt to pressure him to do so.
(d) He believes he will earn his way to heaven that way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason that Mel finds for which Sodom was not destroyed?

2. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?

3. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

4. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?

5. 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?

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