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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. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?
(a) In Little Ease.
(b) In the Outer Ward.
(c) In the Chapel.
(d) On the Tower Watch.

2. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?
(a) Lung Cancer.
(b) Prostate Cancer.
(c) Parkinson's Disease.
(d) Leukemia.

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

4. "The Power and the Glory" dealt with what country in the 1930s?
(a) Japan.
(b) Mexico.
(c) South Africa.
(d) United States.

5. What type of cedar trees does the author describe, as a smell of "the island?"
(a) Atlas.
(b) Western Red.
(c) Dwarf.
(d) Eastern Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which island shop had ceiling fans?

2. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"

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

4. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?

5. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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