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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Mel meet around the end of his senior year in high school?
(a) A gay college professor.
(b) A gay pastor who is in the closet.
(c) An openly gay Roman Catholic priest.
(d) Gordon H.

2. 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.

3. What happens to Jeffrey eventually?
(a) He becomes a preacher and marries happily.
(b) He becomes an outspoken advocate for gay rights.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He ends up in the state mental hospital.

4. Where does Mel attend seminary?
(a) Canooga.
(b) Pacific.
(c) Fuller.
(d) Howell.

5. What is Martin Luther King arguing at the time of Lyla and Mel's enrollment in college?
(a) Christians need to stay above the political/social fights.
(b) Christians were obligated to fight social evil.
(c) Gay rights were as important as other civil rights.
(d) Gays are not born homosexual so they do not deserve civil rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does White feel about marrying Lyla?

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

3. What does Mel say his relationship to his father is like when Mel is younger?

4. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?

5. Whose autobiography does Mel White write?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does White start to pursue concerning his feelings of attraction to other men?

2. What was Lyla like in middle school?

3. How does Mel and Lyla's relationship develop?

4. How does Lyla become a Christian?

5. What does White worry about on his honeymoon, and how does he solve the problem?

6. What is Mel afraid to ask the young seminarian and why?

7. What do White and Lyla do when they return from their honeymoon?

8. Describe how Mel and Lyla met.

9. What does Mel say about whom he might blame for his homosexuality and his feeling miserable as an adolescent?

10. Who is Jeffrey S. and what is his story?

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