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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 said that he told his father's story both as the child "I was in 1936 and still am in ___."
(a) 1990.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1985.

2. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.
(a) Vermont.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Bermuda.

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

4. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?
(a) His sick child.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) We are.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after attending theological seminary did the author started teaching at Harvard?

2. In the Introduction, the author tells us that this is his ___ venture into autobiography.

3. How old was the author when his mother made him feel like a traitor for writing the fictionalized "Ansel Gibbs" about his father's death?

4. In the Introduction, what is the title of the book the author cites as dealing with the interior of his life?

5. According to the author, what is the doorway to healing and forgiveness?

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