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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?
(a) Wool.
(b) Straw.
(c) Flax.
(d) Cotton.

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

3. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?
(a) Last rites.
(b) Ministers.
(c) Churches.
(d) Funerals.

4. What type of lilies were grown commercially on the island, pre-WWI, as described by the author?
(a) Camas.
(b) Queen's Cup.
(c) Death Camas.
(d) Easter.

5. Who wrote "The Power and the Glory?"
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Graham Greene.
(c) G.K. Chesterton.
(d) Thomas Kelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.

2. According to the author, what is the doorway to healing and forgiveness?

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

4. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?

5. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?

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