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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1995.

2. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The White Tower.
(c) The Past.
(d) Your mind.

3. The author talks about English money weighing down his pockets; the heavy coppers, florins and __.
(a) Half Crowns.
(b) Pound Notes.
(c) Sixpences.
(d) Threepenny bits.

4. According to the author, what is the doorway to healing and forgiveness?
(a) Memory.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Communciation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?

2. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?

3. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?

4. In complaining about her looks, what did the author's mother say "don't fit?"

5. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?

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