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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?
(a) Mary.
(b) Yvonne.
(c) Marge.
(d) Naya.

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

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

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

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

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

11. "He who does not love remains in death" is quoted by the author from what book of the Bible?
(a) I John.
(b) II John.
(c) III John.
(d) John.

12. 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.

13. In what year was "Now and Then" written?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1989.

14. The author dreamed about a hotel where the desk clerk told him the name of the room to which he wanted to return is called what?
(a) Remember.
(b) Memory.
(c) Peace.
(d) Redemption.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?

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

3. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.

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

5. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?

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