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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?
(a) Last rites.
(b) Churches.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Ministers.

2. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.
(a) Business.
(b) Flaw.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Triumph.

3. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?
(a) In control.
(b) Healed.
(c) Heard.
(d) Free.

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

5. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?

2. How old was the author when his father committed suicide?

3. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?

4. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.

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

(see the answer key)

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