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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Little Ease?
(a) A throne room.
(b) A palace.
(c) A dungeon.
(d) A chapel.

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

3. In what war was Dudley Knott a naval officer?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Great War.
(c) Vietnam War.
(d) The Hundred Years War.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.

4. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?

5. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. When do Dudley Knott and the author become friends?

2. What does the author tell us about his first two autobiographies?

3. What does the author describe about the Tower of London?

4. How do our other selves develop as explained in Part Two of "Telling Secrets?"

5. What dream did the author have about a hotel?

6. What did the author expect in a Harvard teaching experience that he did not get when he actually taught at Harvard Divinity School?

7. How does the author connect his feelings to what he describes about the Tower in London?

8. What differences did the author write about among Union students as well as what they all shared?

9. Why does the author go to Bermuda as a child?

10. Besides complaints about him praying in his first class at Harvard, what other surprises did the author's students give him?

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