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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The White Tower.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.
(a) Bermuda.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) New Jersey.

3. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.
(a) Shirt.
(b) Sweater.
(c) Vest.
(d) Jacket.

4. What was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?
(a) Ansel Gibbs.
(b) Now and Then.
(c) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(d) The Last Battle.

5. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.
(a) Singing.
(b) Acting.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sitting on the side road, depressed about his sick child, what encouraging word did the author read on the license plate of a passing vehicle?

2. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?

3. In "The Last Battle", who stoops and touches the dwarves with his tongue?

4. What did the author's mother use when she "struck to kill?"

5. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?

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