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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?
(a) On the Tower Watch.
(b) In the Chapel.
(c) In Little Ease.
(d) In the Outer Ward.

2. What hymn did the old nurse teach the author and his young brother?
(a) What A Friend.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) The Old Rugged Cross.
(d) Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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

4. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?
(a) Queen's Cup.
(b) Camas.
(c) Easter.
(d) Death Camas.

5. In what war was Dudley Knott a naval officer?
(a) World War II.
(b) Vietnam War.
(c) The Great War.
(d) The Hundred Years War.

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

7. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.
(a) Aqua.
(b) Blue.
(c) Tawny.
(d) Green.

8. Sitting on the side road, depressed about his sick child, what encouraging word did the author read on the license plate of a passing vehicle?
(a) Believe.
(b) Trust.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.

9. What is the Little Ease?
(a) A chapel.
(b) A palace.
(c) A throne room.
(d) A dungeon.

10. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"
(a) Psalms.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Proverbs.

11. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?
(a) Margie.
(b) Yvonne.
(c) Marge.
(d) Katty.

12. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Othello.

13. What color was the house the author and his family lived in on the island, in a town called Paget?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

14. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.
(a) Sweater.
(b) Vest.
(c) Shirt.
(d) Jacket.

15. The author talks about English money weighing down his pockets; the heavy coppers, florins and __.
(a) Sixpences.
(b) Half Crowns.
(c) Pound Notes.
(d) Threepenny bits.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?

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

3. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?

4. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?

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

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