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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the author's first novel published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1968.

2. 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) Mice.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Ants.
(d) Rats.

3. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Himself.
(d) People.

4. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) Mary Strong.
(d) Thomas Kelly.

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

6. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."
(a) Factionalism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Anarchism.
(d) Egalitarianism.

7. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"
(a) Thomas Kelly.
(b) Graham Greene.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) G.K. Chesterton.

8. How old was the author when he met his new best friend, Dudley Knott?
(a) 40s.
(b) 60s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 30s.

9. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.
(a) Thomas Kelly.
(b) Dorothy Parker.
(c) Mary Strong.
(d) Noel Coward.

10. In the 1950s, the author attended theological seminary in what city?
(a) Essex.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) New York.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

12. The author's maternal grandmother was half old ____ and and half French-Swiss.
(a) Virginia.
(b) New England.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Georgia.

13. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?
(a) The Tower Watch.
(b) Little Ease.
(c) The Chapel of St. John.
(d) The Innermost Ward.

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

15. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?
(a) Faith.
(b) Self.
(c) Anger.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?

4. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?

5. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?

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