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

2. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.
(a) Singing.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Acting.
(d) Writing.

3. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1990.

4. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"
(a) Thomas Kelly.
(b) G.K. Chesterton.
(c) The author.
(d) Noel Coward.

5. 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 school.
(b) A bank.
(c) A church.
(d) A hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that he has underlying questions, just like his sick daughter, about love, trust, fear, loss and _______.

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

3. What is the Little Ease?

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

5. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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