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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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) Green.
(d) Tawny.

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

11. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The Inner Ward.
(c) Chapel St. John.
(d) The Outer Ward.

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

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

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

15. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.
(a) Acting.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?

3. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?

4. Which island shop had ceiling fans?

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

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