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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Basement Room.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Thomas Wingfold?"
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) George MacDonald.
(d) E. M. Forster.

2. Who tends to more publicly lose touch with themselves and with God, according to the author?
(a) Kids.
(b) Authors.
(c) Parents.
(d) Ministers.

3. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Church.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

4. How old was the author when his mother made him feel like a traitor for writing the fictionalized "Ansel Gibbs" about his father's death?
(a) 52.
(b) 32.
(c) 40.
(d) 35.

5. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author talks about English money weighing down his pockets; the heavy coppers, florins and __.

2. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?

3. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?

4. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?

5. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?

(see the answer key)

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