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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mel say to Jeffrey about Jeffrey's feelings of guilt?
(a) Being gay is acceptable, but Jeffrey needs to be celibate.
(b) If Jeffrey feels strongly about something, he should speak his mind.
(c) His brother made his own choices.
(d) Masturbation is not a sin.

2. For what does Martin Luther King criticize Christian churches?
(a) Enjoying the riches of an unequal society.
(b) Condemning homosexuals.
(c) Promoting the status quo.
(d) Dragging their feet when it comes to social justice.

3. Upon what basis does Mel say homosexuality is attacked today?
(a) Gross misinterpretations of Scripture.
(b) Fear of God's punishment.
(c) Ignorance about why people are homosexual.
(d) Hatred of those who are different.

4. How does Mel feel when Lyla asks him to dance?
(a) He feels trapped.
(b) He feels sinful.
(c) He has fun.
(d) He is self conscious.

5. In what field does Mel begin a doctorate?
(a) Theology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Education.
(d) Communications.

6. Noni fights the war between ____________.
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) Body and spirit.
(c) Arrogance and humility.
(d) Christianity and paganism.

7. In what religion was Mel raised?
(a) Evangelical nondenominational churches.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Roman Catholic.

8. What year is it when Mel is in the church camp listening to the young seminarian preach?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1960.

9. When do Lyla and Mel marry?
(a) After they go through a year of counseling.
(b) When they both turn 25.
(c) Just a few days after Mel returns home from the episode with Ted.
(d) When they graduate from college.

10. What does Mel pretend when he is younger?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) He is adopted.
(c) He likes girls.
(d) He is sickly.

11. Why does Mel think he was not being unfair to Lyla to marry her?
(a) He does think he is being unfair.
(b) He honestly loves her.
(c) He is forced to such action by a condemning society.
(d) He thinks she is a lesbian and not honest with him.

12. How does Mel describe Noni?
(a) As quiet and humble.
(b) As outgoing and zealous.
(c) As open-minded and accepting.
(d) As shy and insecure.

13. 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?
(a) Holds Mel's hand and kisses him.
(b) Lectures him on the dangers of homosexuality.
(c) Lectures him on the sinfulness of homosexuality.
(d) Tells Mel he is in love with him.

14. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?
(a) Very close.
(b) Close but Mel could not confide in the man.
(c) He felt afraid of his father.
(d) He felt alienated from his father.

15. What position does White assume at Evangelical Covenant Church?
(a) Choir Director.
(b) Junior Pastor.
(c) Senior Pastor.
(d) Teen Programs Director.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mel's first film concern?

3. What does Mel say did not exist at the time of his attending church camp?

4. For what organization does Mel work?

5. What does Mel say he now knows about his attraction to boys?

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