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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place of torment eventually becomes home if you live there long enough, according to the author?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The Past.
(c) The White Tower.
(d) Your mind.

2. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?
(a) California.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Bermuda.

3. Which island shop had ceiling fans?
(a) Warwick.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Phoenix Drugstore.
(d) Trimingham's.

4. The author dreamed about a hotel where the desk clerk told him the name of the room to which he wanted to return is called what?
(a) Peace.
(b) Remember.
(c) Memory.
(d) Redemption.

5. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.
(a) Green.
(b) Aqua.
(c) Blue.
(d) Tawny.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned by the author, collected works at Wheaton include those of _____.

2. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?

3. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.

4. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.

5. What was the name of the woman the author's mother had trouble understanding because of her thick accent?

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