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

2. What does Mel say about Karen K. in retrospect?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She was in love with Mel.
(c) She is probably a lesbian.
(d) She is the woman he should have married.

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

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

5. Whose symbolic child does Mel consider himself to be?
(a) The Radical Left.
(b) The Religious Right.
(c) No particular group.
(d) The Hippies of the sixties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Lyla hold in high school?

2. What is one of Mel's first homosexual memories?

3. 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?

4. Where do Lyla and Mel enroll for college?

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

(see the answer key)

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