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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The palace.
(c) The Outer Ward.
(d) The Norman chapel.

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

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

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

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

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

8. The author's maternal grandmother was half old ____ and and half French-Swiss.
(a) Georgia.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New England.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?
(a) The Norman chapel.
(b) The White Tower.
(c) The Outer Ward.
(d) The Inner Ward.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author go to wait with a friend who got news about a family accident?

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

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

4. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.

5. In what year was the author's first novel published?

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