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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. In the 1950s, the author attended theological seminary in what city?

2. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?

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

4. How old was the author when he met his new best friend, Dudley Knott?

5. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Naya?

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

8. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

10. What did the author expect in a Harvard teaching experience that he did not get when he actually taught at Harvard Divinity School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author wrote "Brendan" in 1987. How does the author describe Brendan the Navigator? Why does the author say he found another saint in reference to Brendan the Navigator? How does the author use this character and another to convey his belief that we are all crippled? Through Brendan what does the author offer as a solution to help those that are crippled?

Essay Topic 2

The author introduces us to the Tower of London, specifically the the oldest part, the White Tower. What is the White Tower? Why does the author include this information in the book? How does the author connect the details he provided about the White Tower to himself, to his life?

Essay Topic 3

In Part Three of the book, the author talks about the groups that meet in the basement. He specifically details what each group does or does not do. Then he states that the church could learn a lot from such groups since the church, in his opinion, is more like a dysfunctional family, while the groups operate closer to what God intended for His church. Discuss this rationale. How are the groups like families at their best, and operating closer to what God meant for the Church? How does the church resemble a dysfunctional family? What would have to happen, according to the author, for the church to have only God and themselves left?

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