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

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

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

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

5. At theological seminary who became the author's father and brother in Christ?
(a) Robert Macafee Brown.
(b) Paul Tillich.
(c) John Knox.
(d) James Muilenburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?

2. 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.

3. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?

4. What rubber doll did Dudley Knott carry with him everywhere?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

3. What did the author expect in a Harvard teaching experience that he did not get when he actually taught at Harvard Divinity School?

4. How did the author feel about his kids once they were older and how did this affect his life once they left home as adults?

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

6. Who is Naya?

7. What dream did the author have about a hotel?

8. What did trying to help his daughter reveal to the author about his emotional state?

9. Who goes to Bermuda with the author when he is a child and how does he describe their arrival in Bermuda?

10. Why did the author like having Dudley Knott as a friend?

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