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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Prostate Cancer.
(c) Lung Cancer.
(d) Parkinson's Disease.

3. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1995.

4. How many years after attending theological seminary did the author started teaching at Harvard?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

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

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

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

8. The author likens the way we scurry through life to ____, in how we keep busy, busy, ignoring the big things while small things loom large.
(a) Ants.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Mice.
(d) Rats.

9. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?
(a) The Inner Ward.
(b) The White Tower.
(c) The Norman chapel.
(d) The Outer Ward.

10. What rubber doll did Dudley Knott carry with him everywhere?
(a) Scooby-Doo.
(b) Snoopy.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Odie.

11. In what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1983.

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

13. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1979.

14. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

15. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?
(a) Tweeds.
(b) Books.
(c) Furniture.
(d) Bicycles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?

2. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"

3. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?

4. Which was the employer of the driver who later gave the author the license plate with the encouraging word imprinted on it that the author saw passing on the road?

5. In what year was the author's first novel published?

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