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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 Falwell initially get into politics?
(a) To eventually make a bid for governor.
(b) To draw attention to his church.
(c) To speak out against communism, abortion, and divorce.
(d) To force left-wing politicians to rein in their political strategies.

2. What is offered to White by a church in Dallas?
(a) Financial support for White to continue writing for gay writes.
(b) The position of dean of their cathedral.
(c) Financial support until White can find another job.
(d) Financial support to defeat the measure in Oregon.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mel decide to sacrifice?

2. What do many counselors encourage Mel and Lyla to do?

3. With whom does White work on If I Should Die Before I Wake?

4. For what does White praise President Clinton?

5. What does White do for Oliver North?

Short Essay Questions

1. What group does Jerry Falwell form, and who influenced his founding of it?

2. What happens to end White's relationship with Tom Montgomery?

3. What happens one night when White becomes too stressed about his life? What does he do after that?

4. Who is R. J. Rushdoony? What is his view about homosexuality and White's thoughts about that?

5. What do Lyla and Mel finally do? How do the children respond?

6. What does White say about attempts by gays to become heterosexual?

7. Who does White help in the 1970s among the rising Christian political movement?

8. What does Mel say that the religious right increasingly claimed and what was one of those claims?

9. How does White find peace in his new church in Dallas?

10. Who was Michael Piazza, and what did he offer White?

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