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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 scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book says that we were created in the likeness and image of who?
(a) Man.
(b) Angels.
(c) God.
(d) Ourselves.

2. What is the Little Ease?
(a) A throne room.
(b) A palace.
(c) A chapel.
(d) A dungeon.

3. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"
(a) G.K. Chesterton.
(b) Dorothy Parker.
(c) Graham Greene.
(d) Thomas Kelly.

4. What rubber doll did Dudley Knott carry with him everywhere?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Odie.
(c) Scooby-Doo.
(d) Snoopy.

5. The author dreamed about a hotel where the desk clerk told him the name of the room to which he wanted to return is called what?
(a) Memory.
(b) Remember.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer 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.

2. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?

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

4. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."

5. In what war was Dudley Knott a naval officer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. What dream did the author have about a hotel?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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