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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mel White's first client?
(a) Pat Robertson.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Oral Roberts.
(d) Francis Schaeffer.

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

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

4. For how long had Mel tried celibacy?
(a) About 3 years.
(b) About 12 years.
(c) About 21 years.
(d) About 8 years.

5. What group does Pat Robertson form?
(a) Moral Majority.
(b) Christian Coalition.
(c) None.
(d) Christian Brotherhood.

6. To what group does White see some parallels to the religious right?
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Skinheads.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Nazis.

7. Where does White take his family in the summer of 1979 for vacation?
(a) The Bahamas.
(b) British Columbia.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Europe.

8. Where do Gary and White move in 1990?
(a) Laguna Beach.
(b) Monterey.
(c) San Jose.
(d) San Diego.

9. Who is John Finch?
(a) A Christian psychologist at Fuller.
(b) Mel's pastor.
(c) Tom's best friend.
(d) Mel's ghost writer.

10. What is beginning to bud in the late 1970s in the Christian community?
(a) A firm policy against homosexuality.
(b) A reversion to old revival-style religion.
(c) A new and open attitude towards homosexuals.
(d) A Christian political revolution.

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

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

13. Who is Gary Nixon?
(a) A baritone in a choir.
(b) A bartender.
(c) A gay rights lawyer.
(d) A writer.

14. What does Rushdoony argue the book of Leviticus authorizes?
(a) The tolerance of homosexuals.
(b) The imprisonment of homosexuals.
(c) The murder of homosexuals.
(d) The love of homosexuals.

15. What group does Falwell form partly through the influence of Francis Schaeffer?
(a) Christian Majority.
(b) Moral Minority.
(c) Moral Majority.
(d) Christian Minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mel view Jerry Falwell when Mel worked with the man?

2. Why does White feel he needs to fight back against the religious right?

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

4. What does Mel see as destroying his family?

5. What book does Robertson want Mel's help to write?

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