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

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

3. Which island shop had ceiling fans?
(a) Trimingham's.
(b) Phoenix Drugstore.
(c) Warwick.
(d) Raleigh.

4. 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 bank.
(c) A school.
(d) A church.

5. How old was the author when he met his new best friend, Dudley Knott?
(a) 60s.
(b) 50s.
(c) 30s.
(d) 40s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.

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

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

4. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?

5. The scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book says that we were created in the likeness and image of who?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 did the author feel about his kids once they were older and how did this affect his life once they left home as adults?

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

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

10. Why did the author like having Dudley Knott as a friend?

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