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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The White Tower.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who built the White Tower?
(a) Alfred the Great.
(b) Richard the Lionheart.
(c) William the Conqueror.
(d) Canute the Great.

2. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?
(a) Self.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Anger.

3. What color was the house the author and his family lived in on the island, in a town called Paget?
(a) Pink.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

4. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"
(a) The author.
(b) G.K. Chesterton.
(c) Thomas Kelly.
(d) Noel Coward.

5. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?

2. What condition made it almost impossible for the author's mom to walk during her last year of life?

3. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.

4. According to the author, what does God give us that helps us finish with the past and remove the power of the past to hurt us?

5. In the Introduction, how many books does the author mention that dealt with the headlines of his life?

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