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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?
(a) Death Camas.
(b) Camas.
(c) Easter.
(d) Queen's Cup.

3. The author states that he has underlying questions, just like his sick daughter, about love, trust, fear, loss and _______.
(a) Childhood.
(b) Pain.
(c) Death.
(d) Separation.

4. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?
(a) Their food.
(b) Their guests.
(c) Their armor.
(d) Their prisoners.

5. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."
(a) Fascism.
(b) Anarchism.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Factionalism.

6. "He who does not love remains in death" is quoted by the author from what book of the Bible?
(a) III John.
(b) I John.
(c) II John.
(d) John.

7. How old was the author when he met his new best friend, Dudley Knott?
(a) 60s.
(b) 30s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 40s.

8. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.
(a) Love.
(b) People.
(c) Faith.
(d) Himself.

9. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?
(a) Othello.
(b) King Lear.
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Macbeth.

10. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.
(a) Green.
(b) Aqua.
(c) Tawny.
(d) Blue.

11. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?
(a) His books.
(b) His wife.
(c) His writing.
(d) His children.

12. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?
(a) Marge.
(b) Mary.
(c) Naya.
(d) Yvonne.

13. Which island shop had ceiling fans?
(a) Raleigh.
(b) Phoenix Drugstore.
(c) Trimingham's.
(d) Warwick.

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

15. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. At theological seminary who became the author's father and brother in Christ?

2. In what year was "Now and Then" written?

3. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?

4. In the 1950s, the author attended theological seminary in what city?

5. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?

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