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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. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"
(a) Revelation.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Proverbs.
(d) Genesis.

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

3. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?
(a) Anger.
(b) Self.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.

4. The author states that he has underlying questions, just like his sick daughter, about love, trust, fear, loss and _______.
(a) Pain.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Death.
(d) Separation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?

3. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.

4. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?

5. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?

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

3. 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?

4. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

6. Who is Naya?

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

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

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

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

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