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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In telling his father's story as a child, who does Teddy represent in this story?
(a) The author's brother.
(b) The author's best friend.
(c) The author's father.
(d) The author.

4. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

5. Who wrote "The Last Battle?"
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Frederick Buechner.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) E.M. Forster.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author said that he told his father's story both as the child "I was in 1936 and still am in ___."

2. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"

3. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?

4. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?

5. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"

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