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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. The scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book says that we were created in the likeness and image of who?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Angels.
(d) Ourselves.

7. 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.

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

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

10. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"
(a) Thomas Kelly.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) The author.
(d) G.K. Chesterton.

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

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

13. 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?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A school.
(c) A bank.
(d) A church.

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

15. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?
(a) His writing.
(b) His books.
(c) His wife.
(d) His children.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.

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

3. 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?

4. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?

5. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.

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