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

2. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"
(a) Proverbs.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Psalms.

3. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

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

5. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.
(a) Bermuda.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?

2. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"

3. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?

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

5. How old was the author when he met his new best friend, Dudley Knott?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Naya?

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

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