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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?
(a) Our memories.
(b) Life.
(c) Art.
(d) Our parents.

3. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.
(a) Faith.
(b) Church.
(c) God.
(d) Ideas.

4. 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) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Believe.
(d) Trust.

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

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

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

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

9. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) Your mind.
(c) The White Tower.
(d) The Past.

10. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?
(a) The Outer Ward.
(b) The Norman chapel.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) The palace.

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

12. Which island shop had ceiling fans?
(a) Phoenix Drugstore.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Trimingham's.
(d) Warwick.

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

14. The author states that he has underlying questions, just like his sick daughter, about love, trust, fear, loss and _______.
(a) Separation.
(b) Pain.
(c) Death.
(d) Childhood.

15. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.
(a) Bermuda.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cedar trees does the author describe, as a smell of "the island?"

2. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.

3. Where did the author go to wait with a friend who got news about a family accident?

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

5. In what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?

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