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

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

3. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?
(a) We are.
(b) His sick child.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

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

5. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?
(a) Anger.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?

2. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?

3. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?

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

5. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the author translate his hotel dream into his real life?

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

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

6. Who is Naya?

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

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

9. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

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