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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, 1962-1964, Learning to Tell the Truth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?
(a) It was not anything he did wrong for it to occur.
(b) He was mislead by an older man.
(c) He knows it was not real when he was younger.
(d) He was mistaken about his attraction because a boy and not a girl was kind to him.

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

3. How does White feel about marrying Lyla?
(a) Resigned.
(b) Despondent.
(c) Excited.
(d) Reluctant.

4. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?
(a) He feels attracted to Mel.
(b) He is attracted to the minister.
(c) He wants a divorce because he's gay.
(d) He is thinking of killing himself.

5. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?
(a) The Bible study group Mel leads.
(b) Having children.
(c) Dating other men before marrying Mel.
(d) Moving away from her home town.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mel believe about himself while in college?

3. Why does Mel feel obligated to evangelize others?

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

5. Why does Mel feel guilty on his honeymoon?

(see the answer key)

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