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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Anarchism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Factionalism.

2. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1982.

3. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 10 years.

4. What was the make of the family car used for the 1936 suicide?
(a) Ford.
(b) Hudson.
(c) Chrysler.
(d) Chevrolet.

5. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) None.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?

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

3. How old was the author when his father committed suicide?

4. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?

5. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?

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