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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) Angels.
(b) God.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Man.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Knights of the Order of the Bath keep an all night vigil over the day before a king's coronation?

2. In relation to the White Tower, where does the author say he spent many of his dark days?

3. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?

4. Who built the White Tower?

5. What college did the author graduate from before being ordained as a minister?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author connect his feelings to what he describes about the Tower in London?

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

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

7. How did the author's kids connect him with the outside world when they were small?

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

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

10. What events from the author's life most fit the title for Part Two of "Telling Secrets?"

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