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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 question is Mel afraid to ask?
(a) Why sex is so difficult to discuss.
(b) Why God does not allow men to love men.
(c) If homosexuals are really going to hell.
(d) Why he is only attracted to males.

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

3. How does Mel describe his father?
(a) A self-made man.
(b) An agnostic.
(c) An aggressive but wise man.
(d) A kind, gentle giant.

4. What position does Lyla hold in high school?
(a) None.
(b) Junior class treasurer.
(c) Senior class president.
(d) Director of social affairs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Mel say about Karen K. in retrospect?

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

4. What word(s) sets Mel to researching the Bible about homosexuality.?

5. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?

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