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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that he has underlying questions, just like his sick daughter, about love, trust, fear, loss and _______.
(a) Death.
(b) Pain.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Separation.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Remember.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Memory.
(d) Peace.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author's maternal grandmother was half old ____ and and half French-Swiss.

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

3. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?

4. What is the Little Ease?

5. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?

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