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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Tweeds.
(c) Books.
(d) Furniture.

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

3. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?
(a) Our parents.
(b) Life.
(c) Art.
(d) Our memories.

4. 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) Peace.
(c) Remember.
(d) Memory.

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

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

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

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 food.
(c) Their armor.
(d) Their prisoners.

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

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

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

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

13. What type of cedar trees does the author describe, as a smell of "the island?"
(a) Dwarf.
(b) Western Red.
(c) Atlas.
(d) Eastern Red.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?

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.

3. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?

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

5. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?

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