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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book says that we were created in the likeness and image of who?
(a) God.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Angels.
(d) Man.

2. Who built the White Tower?
(a) William the Conqueror.
(b) Alfred the Great.
(c) Richard the Lionheart.
(d) Canute the Great.

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

4. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"
(a) Genesis.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Proverbs.
(d) Psalms.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The author writes about his teaching experience at Harvard that "the danger of pluralism is that it becomes ______."

4. In what year did the author's sick daughter finally graduate college?

5. What was the name of the author's maternal grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author translate his hotel dream into his real life?

2. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

3. Why did the author like having Dudley Knott as a friend?

4. What did the author expect in a Harvard teaching experience that he did not get when he actually taught at Harvard Divinity School?

5. What dream did the author have about a hotel?

6. Besides complaints about him praying in his first class at Harvard, what other surprises did the author's students give him?

7. How did the author feel about his kids once they were older and how did this affect his life once they left home as adults?

8. What does the author tell us about his first two autobiographies?

9. How do our other selves develop as explained in Part Two of "Telling Secrets?"

10. What did trying to help his daughter reveal to the author about his emotional state?

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