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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The White Tower.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

2. Who made no new friends while living in New York for almost twenty years?
(a) Mrs. Frederick Buechner.
(b) The author.
(c) The author's father.
(d) Mrs. Buechner.

3. 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) Vermont.
(b) Illinois.
(c) California.
(d) Bermuda.

4. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?
(a) 69th.
(b) 79th.
(c) 82nd.
(d) 42nd.

5. When the dwarves are offered wine, what do they think it is?
(a) Tea with arsenic.
(b) Poison.
(c) Ditch water.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What renders distinctions between past, present and future meaningless, according to the author?

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

3. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?

4. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?

5. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"

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