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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?
(a) Their guests.
(b) Their prisoners.
(c) Their food.
(d) Their armor.

2. What is on the second floor of the White Tower?
(a) The Tower Watch.
(b) Little Ease.
(c) The Innermost Ward.
(d) The Chapel of St. John.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Part Two, the author describes his memory of the color of the shallows in the Gulf Stream on the island as ___.
(a) Tawny.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Aqua.

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

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

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

13. The author also read "A Testament of Devotion," written by _____.
(a) Mary Strong.
(b) Dorothy Parker.
(c) Thomas Kelly.
(d) Noel Coward.

14. "The Power and the Glory" dealt with what country in the 1930s?
(a) Japan.
(b) South Africa.
(c) United States.
(d) Mexico.

15. How many years after college graduation was the author ordained as a minister?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author likens the way we scurry through life to ____, in how we keep busy, busy, ignoring the big things while small things loom large.

2. According to the author what batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways?

3. What is the Little Ease?

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

5. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?

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