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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) Sweater.
(b) Jacket.
(c) Vest.
(d) Shirt.

2. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) Thomas Kelly.
(d) Mary Strong.

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

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

5. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1990.

6. In what year was "Now and Then" written?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1972.

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

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

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

10. In what year was the author's first novel published?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?

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

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

4. What type of cedar trees does the author describe, as a smell of "the island?"

5. At theological seminary who became the author's father and brother in Christ?

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