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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Basement Room.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, how many books does the author mention that dealt with the headlines of his life?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. Whose view was it that "publishers publish writers rather than just books?"
(a) Clayton Carlson.
(b) James Anderson.
(c) Dudley Knott.
(d) John Tillich.

3. 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) Love.
(b) Believe.
(c) Trust.
(d) Faith.

4. What was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?
(a) The Last Battle.
(b) Now and Then.
(c) Ansel Gibbs.
(d) Les Malheurs de Sophie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?

2. How old was the author's mother-in-law when she died?

3. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.

4. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."

5. In the room of the author's mother what kind of magazines are on her chaise lounge?

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