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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 room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?
(a) Chapel St. John.
(b) Little Ease.
(c) The Inner Ward.
(d) The Outer Ward.

2. In the Introduction, the author tells us that this is his ___ venture into autobiography.
(a) Fifth.
(b) Third.
(c) Second.
(d) First.

3. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.
(a) Himself.
(b) People.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

4. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?
(a) The pillow.
(b) The purse.
(c) The cane.
(d) The fan.

5. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?
(a) Flax.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Wool.
(d) Straw.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"

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 "Now and Then" written?

4. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?

5. 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.

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