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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 what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

2. 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) Blue.
(c) Aqua.
(d) Tawny.

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

4. What is the title of the book written by Kahlil Gibran that is on the table next to the chaise lounge in the author's mother's room?
(a) The Last Battle
(b) The Prophet.
(c) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(d) Now and Then.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?

2. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?

3. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.

4. What is the title of the book the author wrote to tell the story of his father to a child?

5. What rubber doll did Dudley Knott carry with him everywhere?

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