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Telling Secrets Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.
(a) Business.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Triumph.
(d) Flaw.

2. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?
(a) Flax.
(b) Straw.
(c) Wool.
(d) Cotton.

3. Who tends to more publicly lose touch with themselves and with God, according to the author?
(a) Ministers.
(b) Authors.
(c) Kids.
(d) Parents.

4. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?
(a) 42nd.
(b) 82nd.
(c) 79th.
(d) 69th.

5. In "Godric" what is the name of the father of the title character?
(a) Bean.
(b) Aslan.
(c) Teddy.
(d) Aedlward.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author's mother lived to within how many days of her ninety-second birthday?

2. The author's mother's motto, translated from French is, "you have to ____ in order to be beautiful."

3. To whom is the book "Godric" dedicated?

4. In "The Last Battle", who stoops and touches the dwarves with his tongue?

5. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the author telling his secrets?

2. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?

3. How did author's mom respond to his fictionalized version of his father's death and how did her reaction to this fist telling affect the author's writing about the death later?

4. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?

5. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?

6. How does the author describe his father's suicide?

7. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?

8. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?

9. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?

10. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"

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