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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 color was the house the author and his family lived in on the island, in a town called Paget?
(a) Blue.
(b) Pink.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

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

3. In what year was the author's first novel published?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1968.

4. Sitting on the side road, depressed about his sick child, what encouraging word did the author read on the license plate of a passing vehicle?
(a) Believe.
(b) Trust.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?

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

3. The author talks about English money weighing down his pockets; the heavy coppers, florins and __.

4. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?

5. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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