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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?
(a) Lung Cancer.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Prostate Cancer.
(d) Parkinson's Disease.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.

3. In what year was the author's first novel published?

4. In what war was Dudley Knott a naval officer?

5. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?

Short Essay Questions

1. Besides complaints about him praying in his first class at Harvard, what other surprises did the author's students give him?

2. Why does the author go to Bermuda as a child?

3. What differences did the author write about among Union students as well as what they all shared?

4. How does the author connect his feelings to what he describes about the Tower in London?

5. When do Dudley Knott and the author become friends?

6. Who is Naya?

7. What events from the author's life most fit the title for Part Two of "Telling Secrets?"

8. What does the author tell us about his first two autobiographies?

9. How did the author's kids connect him with the outside world when they were small?

10. What does the author describe about the Tower of London?

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