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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?
(a) The Inner Ward.
(b) The Outer Ward.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) Chapel St. John.

5. In what war was Dudley Knott a naval officer?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Great War.
(c) The Hundred Years War.
(d) Vietnam War.

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

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

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

9. What does the author say we are constantly putting off and on like coats and hats against the world's weather?
(a) Self.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Anger.

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

11. What Shakespeare reading assignment was objected to by the author's feminist students?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Othello.

12. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1980.

13. "He who does not love remains in death" is quoted by the author from what book of the Bible?
(a) John.
(b) III John.
(c) II John.
(d) I John.

14. The author talks about English money weighing down his pockets; the heavy coppers, florins and __.
(a) Half Crowns.
(b) Pound Notes.
(c) Threepenny bits.
(d) Sixpences.

15. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?
(a) Art.
(b) Life.
(c) Our parents.
(d) Our memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?

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

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

4. How old was the author when he met his new best friend, Dudley Knott?

5. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?

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