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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The White Tower.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?
(a) The Norman chapel.
(b) The Outer Ward.
(c) The Inner Ward.
(d) The White Tower.
2. The author's maternal grandmother was half old ____ and and half French-Swiss.
(a) Virginia.
(b) New England.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Georgia.
3. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."
(a) Anarchism.
(b) Factionalism.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Fascism.
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?
(a) Strength.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Memory.
5. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?
(a) The Innermost Ward.
(b) Little Ease.
(c) The Chapel of St. John.
(d) The Tower Watch.
Short Answer Questions
1. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?
2. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?
3. The author likens the way we scurry through life to ____, in how we keep busy, busy, ignoring the big things while small things loom large.
4. How old was the author when his father committed suicide?
5. What title did the author write when he was in his fifties and his mom was in her eighties?
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