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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. Why does Mel blame Dr. Parker?
(a) For trying to cure his homosexuality.
(b) Mel does not blame Dr. Parker.
(c) For telling Mel's parents about Mel's homosexuality.
(d) For Dr. Parker's stance against homosexuality.

2. Who phoned the camp to have the young seminarian sent home?
(a) Parents of campers.
(b) The diocese bishop.
(c) The Board of Education.
(d) No one.

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

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

5. What is Mel's response to the movie, Zorba the Greek?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He thinks it is advocates immoral actions.
(c) He thinks it is anti-Chrisitan.
(d) He has never seen it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel relate to Howard Rutledge?

2. What is one book Mel writes soon after producing Though I Walk Through the Valley?

3. Who is Karl Barth?

4. How does Mel describe his mother?

5. For what does Jeffrey S. feel guilty?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does White say is Martin Luther King's belief about Christian involvement in social change, and how does White feel about his response?

3. What does Mel White recall about a young seminarian who preached at a church camp Mel attends when he is twelve?

4. Why does Mel think his grandmother Noni was so zealous?

5. How does Mel try to avoid being discovered as being gay?

6. Why does Mel not think it was unethical of him to marry Lyla when he returns from the Choir tour?

7. Describe Mel's brief involvement with Ted.

8. Who is Peter W.? What does White write about the young man?

9. How does Mel describe himself as an adolescent?

10. What does White relate about Falwell and civil rights?

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