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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"
(a) Thomas Kelly.
(b) Dorothy Parker.
(c) G.K. Chesterton.
(d) Graham Greene.

2. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

4. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?
(a) 450 years.
(b) 1,200 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 1,000 years.

5. What was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?
(a) Ansel Gibbs.
(b) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(c) Now and Then.
(d) The Last Battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author's mother's motto, translated from French is, "you have to ____ in order to be beautiful."

2. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."

3. In what year was "Now and Then" written?

4. What did the author's mother use when she "struck to kill?"

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

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