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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) Fascism.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Factionalism.
(d) Anarchism.

2. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

3. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?
(a) 82nd.
(b) 42nd.
(c) 79th.
(d) 69th.

4. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?
(a) Their food.
(b) Their prisoners.
(c) Their armor.
(d) Their guests.

5. Three acts of God mentioned by the author that appear in scripture are the Exodus, the ___, and the entry into the Promised Land.
(a) Crucifixion.
(b) Cross.
(c) Confession.
(d) Covenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book says that we were created in the likeness and image of who?

2. 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?

3. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?

4. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"

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

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