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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Memory.
(c) Remember.
(d) Peace.

2. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?
(a) 500 years.
(b) 1,000 years.
(c) 1,200 years.
(d) 450 years.

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) People.
(c) Himself.
(d) Love.

4. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.
(a) Jacket.
(b) Vest.
(c) Shirt.
(d) Sweater.

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

6. At theological seminary who became the author's father and brother in Christ?
(a) Robert Macafee Brown.
(b) James Muilenburg.
(c) John Knox.
(d) Paul Tillich.

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

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

9. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

10. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?
(a) His sick child.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) We are.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."

3. 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?

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

5. What is the Little Ease?

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