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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?
(a) Katty.
(b) Margie.
(c) Marge.
(d) Yvonne.

4. 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 bank.
(b) A church.
(c) A school.
(d) A hospital.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Ourselves.
(b) God.
(c) Angels.
(d) Man.

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?

3. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?

4. In what year was "Now and Then" written?

5. "He who does not love remains in death" is quoted by the author from what book of the Bible?

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