View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author read the "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood," written by _____.
(a) Thomas Kelly.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) Mary Strong.
(d) Dorothy Parker.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "He who does not love remains in death" is quoted by the author from what book of the Bible?

3. Who bought the world and "home" back to the author each day?

4. In what year was the author's first novel published?

5. What is the Little Ease?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who goes to Bermuda with the author when he is a child and how does he describe their arrival in Bermuda?

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

4. What does the author describe about the Tower of London?

5. Why does the author go to Bermuda as a child?

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

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. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?

9. What differences did the author write about among Union students as well as what they all shared?

10. What can you tell about the author and his time at Union Theological Seminary?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 635 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample