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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Books.
(c) Tweeds.
(d) Furniture.

2. Where did the author go to wait with a friend who got news about a family accident?
(a) Airport.
(b) His home.
(c) Train station.
(d) Bus station.

3. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?
(a) Spoiled.
(b) Good.
(c) Poisoned.
(d) Offal.

4. Who wrote "The Last Battle?"
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Frederick Buechner.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) E.M. Forster.

5. In the Introduction, how many books does the author mention that dealt with the headlines of his life?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?

2. What condition made it almost impossible for the author's mom to walk during her last year of life?

3. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.

4. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.

5. Losing track of our "____," according to the author, means being impoverished humanly and spiritually.

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