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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What formed the X-shaped shadow Van looks at in "The Shadow of a Tree?"
(a) A ship's mast.
(b) His body.
(c) A tree.
(d) A building.

2. How did Van feel when Davy became a Christian?
(a) He could not believe she did it without him.
(b) He was angry with her.
(c) He was afraid of what would happen to their relationship.
(d) He thought she would change her mind.

3. How did reading C.S. Lewis' work make Davy feel?
(a) Pained.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Pleased.
(d) At peace.

4. What helped heal Van's doubt about religion after C.S. Lewis warns him about attacks on his faith?
(a) Time.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Love.

5. Whose death did Van learn about while he is stationed in Hawaii?
(a) Davy's father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Davy's mother.

6. How does Van describe Davy?
(a) His lost chance.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His biggest mystery.
(d) His first love.

7. Who bombed Pearl Harbor?
(a) Japan.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

8. How did Van describe Christianity after seeing the cross-like shadow?
(a) As a fairy tale.
(b) As a truth.
(c) As a weapon.
(d) As a farce.

9. When did Van and Davy secretly marry?
(a) After about six months together.
(b) After about two years together.
(c) After about a year together.
(d) They never married.

10. Where did a man expose himself to Davy?
(a) On a train.
(b) On Yale campus.
(c) At her house.
(d) In a park.

11. What does Van describe as the most repugnant part of confessing faith in Christianity?
(a) Bending down on one's knee.
(b) Making a confession to a priest.
(c) Saying the rosary.
(d) Reading the Bible.

12. When did Van return to Glenmerle for the first time?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

13. What did Van and Davy call their "shining barrier?"
(a) Their marriage code.
(b) Their values.
(c) The fence around Glenmerle.
(d) Their love.

14. What did Van and Davy do the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed?
(a) Went fishing.
(b) Ate dinner with friends.
(c) Sailed a boat.
(d) Built a bomb shelter.

15. Why did Van and Davy enroll at Yale?
(a) It was the best school.
(b) They loved New Haven.
(c) There were too many students at Oxford.
(d) They got free tuition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Van call "the dirge of a dying world?"

2. Why does Van say he decided to seek joy?

3. What did the man exposing himself make Van and Davy realize is part of all humans?

4. What did C.S. Lewis say human dreams are greater than?

5. What did Van's dinner group in England do?

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