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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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 does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?

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

4. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?

5. What is the Little Ease?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What dream did the author have about a hotel?

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 go to Bermuda as a child?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happened in the author's dream about a hotel (provide details)? What did the room come to mean to the author? In reality what represented Eden to the author and why?

Essay Topic 2

In Part Two of the book, the author talks about the "mystery" of Genesis 1:26-27. What is the "mystery" and how does this relate to what the author calls our deepest, original self? What happens to this original self after the world "does its work?" What does the author mean when he talks about the weather of the world, hats and coats, and "all our other selves?"

Essay Topic 3

Why does the author attend St. Barnabas Episcopal Church? How is this place more at home for him than another Church? Why does the author enjoy the chanting so much? Who is Robert MacFarlane, and how does he impact the author's connection with this church?

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