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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. How does Howard Rutledge survive a very difficult time?
(a) His belief in himself.
(b) His faith in God.
(c) Pretending he is a Christian.
(d) Pretending he is straight.

2. What does White not have the ability to do?
(a) Be honest with his congregation about his homosexuality.
(b) Leave the church.
(c) Be celibate as far as sex with men.
(d) Be honest with his wife.

3. What does Mel use in order to cure his homosexuality?
(a) Drawings of pictures of hell.
(b) Shock treatements.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Prayer and therapy.

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

5. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?
(a) It is a gift from God.
(b) It is best to wait until one is married for sexual pleasure.
(c) It is always wrong.
(d) The preacher does not bring up the topic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it when Mel is in the church camp listening to the young seminarian preach?

2. For what organization does Mel work?

3. What happens to Mel's career during the Seventies?

4. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?

5. What does Ted do after he becomes enraged at Mel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lyla like in middle school?

2. How does Lyla become a Christian?

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

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

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

6. From where does Mel say his self hatred arose?

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

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

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

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

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