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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dwarves in the Stable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who refers to themselves as the "last rose of summer?"
(a) Mrs. Buechner.
(b) Yvonne.
(c) Mrs. Frederick Buechner.
(d) Dorothy Parker.

2. The author's sick daughter was more afraid of what than death?
(a) Being hospitalized.
(b) Gaining weight.
(c) Being rejected.
(d) Coming home.

3. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 25 years.

4. What was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?
(a) The Last Battle.
(b) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(c) Ansel Gibbs.
(d) Now and Then.

5. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the dwarves are offered wine, what do they think it is?

2. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?

3. What was the name of the woman who came nights but according to the author's mother was late because of the subway?

4. According to the author, what does God give us that helps us finish with the past and remove the power of the past to hurt us?

5. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?

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