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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At theological seminary who became the author's father and brother in Christ?
(a) John Knox.
(b) Paul Tillich.
(c) Robert Macafee Brown.
(d) James Muilenburg.

2. The author states that he has underlying questions, just like his sick daughter, about love, trust, fear, loss and _______.
(a) Separation.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Death.
(d) Pain.

3. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?
(a) Margie.
(b) Marge.
(c) Katty.
(d) Yvonne.

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

5. According to the author, besides himself, who else to some degree is like the White Tower?
(a) His sick child.
(b) We are.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

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

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

8. In what year was "The Sacred Journey" written?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1990.

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

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

11. What rubber doll did Dudley Knott carry with him everywhere?
(a) Snoopy.
(b) Odie.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Scooby-Doo.

12. According to the author, about how old is the the Chapel of St. John?
(a) 1,200 years.
(b) 1,000 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 450 years.

13. The author's maternal grandmother was half old ____ and and half French-Swiss.
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New England.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

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

15. What illness did Dudley Knott battle just before the author met him and they became friends?
(a) Parkinson's Disease.
(b) Lung Cancer.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Prostate Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cedar trees does the author describe, as a smell of "the island?"

2. The author writes about how he cannot preach about ____, after an atheist student tells him she and others do not believe in God.

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

4. When the author and his brother lived in _____ they had a nurse who dropped her teeth at will.

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

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