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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1989.

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

4. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The Past.
(c) The White Tower.
(d) Your mind.

5. How many years after his father's suicide did the author write "The Return of Ansel Gibbs?"
(a) 15.
(b) 35.
(c) 22.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?

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

3. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?

4. Who made no new friends while living in New York for almost twenty years?

5. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?

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