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

2. In what year was "Now and Then" written?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1989.

3. What renders distinctions between past, present and future meaningless, according to the author?
(a) Love.
(b) Memory.
(c) Healing.
(d) Death.

4. What was the name of the woman the author's mother had trouble understanding because of her thick accent?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Margie.
(c) Margorie.
(d) Yvonne.

5. Who built the White Tower?
(a) Richard the Lionheart.
(b) Alfred the Great.
(c) William the Conqueror.
(d) Canute the Great.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?

2. "He who does not love remains in death" is quoted by the author from what book of the Bible?

3. What color was the house the author and his family lived in on the island, in a town called Paget?

4. When the dwarves are offered wine, what do they think it is?

5. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?

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