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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is White interviewed several times when he comes out?
(a) At Falwell's church.
(b) Network television.
(c) At a luncheon of religious right leaders.
(d) In front of the congregation in Dallas.

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

3. Where does White want to move?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) San Diego.

4. What does Mel say David never misses?
(a) A new face at the bar.
(b) A chance to laugh.
(c) His coming out day celebration.
(d) Mass.

5. What often makes White tearful during the church services?
(a) The many men with AIDS.
(b) The overwhelming task of redefining Christianity for gays.
(c) The hymns.
(d) The testimonies from gays who feel accepted there.

6. What stories does White relate about gays who have tried to be "cured" of homosexuality.
(a) He admits there are numerous stunning successes of gays being cured.
(b) Stories about treatment akin to torture to force gays to change.
(c) He does not know anyone who has tried to be cured.
(d) Ones with tragic results.

7. Who is Marty James?
(a) A gay man in the advanced stages of AIDS.
(b) A young man who kills himself for being gay.
(c) A preacher in Dallas who is against homosexuality.
(d) A gay man who advocates isolating AIDS victims.

8. Who is David?
(a) An elderly, retired Catholic priest.
(b) A reformed bookie.
(c) A Spanish-American.
(d) A young Greek man.

9. What book does Robertson want Mel's help to write?
(a) America's Dates with Destiny.
(b) America's Land of too much Freedom.
(c) Dates with God and America.
(d) Destiny and God.

10. Who is R. J. Rushdoony?
(a) A gay psychiatrist.
(b) A Christian reconstructionist.
(c) A strong gay rights advocate.
(d) A Jewish theologian.

11. Who are Philip and Janet Yancey?
(a) Mel's friends with whom he sometimes discussed his homosexuality.
(b) A couple Mel meets in Hawaii.
(c) Two of Falwell's administrators who try to convince Mel to be celibate.
(d) Mel's friends who own a resort in Northern California.

12. Who calls White and asks him to work on an important book when White is contemplating moving to be with Tom?
(a) Pat Robertson.
(b) Jerry Falwell.
(c) Oral Roberts.
(d) Billy Graham.

13. What happens when White speaks out about the measure in Oregon?
(a) His life is threatened.
(b) He gains the support of the Jewish community.
(c) He is supported by some of the religious right for whom he had once wrote.
(d) He is sent letters of condemnation by the religious right.

14. What does Mel say often happens to gay men who stay in the closet?
(a) They commit suicide.
(b) They suffer depression.
(c) They become celibate.
(d) They are killed from anonymous sex or AIDS.

15. Who is Dr. Warren Jones?
(a) The new pastor at Mel's church.
(b) A former professor of Mel's at Fuller.
(c) Mel's new psychiatrist.
(d) A televangelist in the local Los Angeles area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the first priorities of the Truth in Love campaign?

2. What do Falwell and the other evangelists of his ilk continue to do?

3. How does Mel assist right-wing Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell?

4. How do Mel and Lyla's children respond to the divorce?

5. What does White say in his letter to Jerry Falwell on December 24, 1991?

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