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

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

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

4. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?
(a) The White Tower.
(b) Your mind.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) The Past.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"

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

5. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can you tell about the author and his time at Union Theological Seminary?

2. Who goes to Bermuda with the author when he is a child and how does he describe their arrival in Bermuda?

3. How did the author's kids connect him with the outside world when they were small?

4. What did trying to help his daughter reveal to the author about his emotional state?

5. What events from the author's life most fit the title for Part Two of "Telling Secrets?"

6. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

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

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

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

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