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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, 1990-91, One Last Year of Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mel meet Gary Nixon?
(a) MCC.
(b) The baths.
(c) A gay bar.
(d) All Saints Episcopal.

2. How do Mel and Lyla's children respond to the divorce?
(a) They are happy that the fighting will end.
(b) They hate it.
(c) They think it's not going to last.
(d) They think it's a good move.

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

4. What does Darrel do that made Mel think about the boy obsessively?
(a) Touches Mel while they were swimming.
(b) Dances with Mel.
(c) Kisses Mel.
(d) Says mean things to Mel.

5. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?
(a) Mel's best friend in high school.
(b) Gordon H.
(c) Mel's second cousin who was gay.
(d) The Roman Catholic priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?

2. When does Mel's attraction to men finally lessen?

3. What does Mel use in order to cure his homosexuality?

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

5. When do Lyla and Mel decide to separate?

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