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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?
2. What was in the bowl on top of the bureau in the room of the author's mother?
3. What was the make of the family car used for the 1936 suicide?
4. In the Introduction, what is the title of the book the author cites as dealing with the interior of his life?
5. In regards to beauty, the author's mother said you have a better chance of finding a lost cane again, than finding what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
2. How is the author's story, our story?
3. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
4. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?
5. How do ministers lose touch with God?
6. 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?
7. How did the author's mother's aging affect her life?
8. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
9. Why is the author telling his secrets?
10. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author writes his own book introduction. What does the introduction reveal about the author? What purpose for the book is explained, and why is he writing another autobiography when he has already penned two such publications? What picture does the author create for the reader about expectations for this book, as well as his state of mind about the book's content?
Essay Topic 2
Explain what the author means when he writes that by watching and listening we are praying. How does God speak to us in quietness? What is "God's place" in us? What deadens us to God's presence within us? How does Psalm 131 illustrate these points from the author?
Essay Topic 3
Why does the author attend St. Barnabas Episcopal Church? How is this place more at home for him than another Church? Why does the author enjoy the chanting so much? Who is Robert MacFarlane, and how does he impact the author's connection with this church?
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