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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 what has an heavy oak door?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The Norman chapel.
(c) The Outer Ward.
(d) The palace.

2. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.
(a) Aqua.
(b) Tawny.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

3. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?
(a) The Innermost Ward.
(b) The Tower Watch.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) The Chapel of St. John.

4. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Church.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?

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

4. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?

5. What does the author describe as the "living heart and command center" of his mother's room?

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