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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.
(a) Mary Strong.
(b) Thomas Kelly.
(c) Noel Coward.
(d) Dorothy Parker.

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

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

4. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?
(a) 1,000 years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) 1,200 years.
(d) 450 years.

5. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?
(a) Yvonne.
(b) Margie.
(c) Katty.
(d) Marge.

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

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

8. Where did the author go to wait with a friend who got news about a family accident?
(a) Bus station.
(b) Train station.
(c) Airport.
(d) His home.

9. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?
(a) In the Outer Ward.
(b) In the Chapel.
(c) In Little Ease.
(d) On the Tower Watch.

10. 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.

11. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?
(a) The Outer Ward.
(b) Little Ease.
(c) The Inner Ward.
(d) Chapel St. John.

12. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?
(a) The Outer Ward.
(b) The palace.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) The Norman chapel.

13. What hymn did the old nurse teach the author and his young brother?
(a) Battle Hymn of the Republic.
(b) The Old Rugged Cross.
(c) What A Friend.
(d) Amazing Grace.

14. 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) Faith.
(d) God.

15. In the 1950s, the author attended theological seminary in what city?
(a) New York.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Jersey City.
(d) Essex.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.

2. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.

3. What type of cedar trees does the author describe, as a smell of "the island?"

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

5. "The Power and the Glory" dealt with what country in the 1930s?

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