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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. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The Inner Ward.
(c) Chapel St. John.
(d) The Outer Ward.

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

3. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?
(a) The Tower Watch.
(b) The Innermost Ward.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) The Chapel of St. John.

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

5. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Thomas Kelly.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Mary Strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.

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

3. "The Power and the Glory" dealt with what country in the 1930s?

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

5. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

4. What did trying to help his daughter reveal to the author about his emotional state?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Who is Naya?

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

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