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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. In what war was Dudley Knott a naval officer?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Hundred Years War.
(c) Vietnam War.
(d) The Great War.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?
(a) On the Tower Watch.
(b) In the Outer Ward.
(c) In Little Ease.
(d) In the Chapel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Power and the Glory" dealt with what country in the 1930s?

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

3. What is the Little Ease?

4. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?

5. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?

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