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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "The Power and the Glory" dealt with what country in the 1930s?
(a) Mexico.
(b) South Africa.
(c) United States.
(d) Japan.

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

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

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

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

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

8. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.
(a) Mary Strong.
(b) Thomas Kelly.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Noel Coward.

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

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

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

12. 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.
(a) Lizards.
(b) Ants.
(c) Rats.
(d) Mice.

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

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

15. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.
(a) Vermont.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?

2. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?

3. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.

4. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"

5. In the 1950s, the author attended theological seminary in what city?

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