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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 built the White Tower?
(a) Alfred the Great.
(b) William the Conqueror.
(c) Richard the Lionheart.
(d) Canute the Great.

2. Who refers to themselves as the "last rose of summer?"
(a) Yvonne.
(b) Mrs. Buechner.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Mrs. Frederick Buechner.

3. What renders distinctions between past, present and future meaningless, according to the author?
(a) Memory.
(b) Love.
(c) Healing.
(d) Death.

4. In the Introduction, what is the title of the book the author cites as dealing with the interior of his life?
(a) Now and Then.
(b) The Sacred Journey.
(c) Godric.
(d) Telling Secrets.

5. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?
(a) California.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author's mother lived to within how many days of her ninety-second birthday?

2. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?

3. The author's sick daughter was more afraid of what than death?

4. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?

5. In what month during1936 did the author's father commit suicide?

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