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

2. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.

3. In what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?

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

5. The scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book says that we were created in the likeness and image of who?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. When do Dudley Knott and the author become friends?

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

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

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

8. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Why is the author's daughter sick? How did she get well? How did the increasing wellness of his daughter, help the author to realize that he was not well? How does the author explain what happens to someone who after being sick for so long is suddenly well? How does this new "freedom" affect them?

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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