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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 also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Mary Strong.
(c) Thomas Kelly.
(d) Noel Coward.

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

3. At theological seminary who became the author's father and brother in Christ?
(a) James Muilenburg.
(b) John Knox.
(c) Robert Macafee Brown.
(d) Paul Tillich.

4. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?
(a) Mary.
(b) Marge.
(c) Yvonne.
(d) Naya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?

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

3. Sitting on the side road, depressed about his sick child, what encouraging word did the author read on the license plate of a passing vehicle?

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

5. Who built the White Tower?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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