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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many failed marriages did the author's mother have after his father died?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. What is the title of the book the author wrote to tell the story of his father to a child?
(a) Now and Then.
(b) The Last Battle.
(c) The Wizard's Tide.
(d) Ansel Gibbs.

3. In the room of the author's mother what kind of magazines are on her chaise lounge?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Home Making.
(c) Movie.
(d) Fashion.

4. When the dwarves are offered wine, what do they think it is?
(a) Blood.
(b) Tea with arsenic.
(c) Poison.
(d) Ditch water.

5. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) G.K. Chesterton.
(c) The author.
(d) Thomas Kelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?

2. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?

3. What hymn did the old nurse teach the author and his young brother?

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

5. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?

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