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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author asked another of his atheist students what he have faith in, the student replied he had faith in ____.
(a) Himself.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) People.

2. In the 1950s, the author attended theological seminary in what city?
(a) Essex.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) New York.

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

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

5. According to the author, what could you buy in the island shop called Trimingham's?
(a) Tweeds.
(b) Books.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Furniture.

6. In what year was the author's first novel published?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1945.

7. The author lists what he calls "real" art as painting, music, dance, and ______.
(a) Writing.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Acting.
(d) Singing.

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

9. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.
(a) Church.
(b) Ideas.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

10. What is the Little Ease?
(a) A palace.
(b) A dungeon.
(c) A chapel.
(d) A throne room.

11. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?
(a) His wife.
(b) His children.
(c) His books.
(d) His writing.

12. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"
(a) The author.
(b) G.K. Chesterton.
(c) Thomas Kelly.
(d) Noel Coward.

13. What is the oldest part of the Tower of London?
(a) The Norman chapel.
(b) The Outer Ward.
(c) The Inner Ward.
(d) The White Tower.

14. In "The White Tower", the author describes his father as the young man in the gray slacks and maroon _______.
(a) Vest.
(b) Shirt.
(c) Sweater.
(d) Jacket.

15. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?
(a) In the Outer Ward.
(b) In the Chapel.
(c) In Little Ease.
(d) On the Tower Watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after attending theological seminary did the author started teaching at Harvard?

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?

3. In the White Tower what has an heavy oak door?

4. In what year was "Now and Then" written?

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

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