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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. Who refers to themselves as the "last rose of summer?"
2. What was in the bowl on top of the bureau in the room of the author's mother?
3. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?
4. Three acts of God mentioned by the author that appear in scripture are the Exodus, the ___, and the entry into the Promised Land.
5. What was the name of the woman who came nights but according to the author's mother was late because of the subway?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?
2. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?
3. What is the most sacred function of memory?
4. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?
5. How is the author's story, our story?
6. Why did the author's mother have so few friends as she got older?
7. 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?
8. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?
9. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
10. How did the author's mother's aging affect her life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Part Three of the book, the author talks about the groups that meet in the basement. He specifically details what each group does or does not do. Then he states that the church could learn a lot from such groups since the church, in his opinion, is more like a dysfunctional family, while the groups operate closer to what God intended for His church. Discuss this rationale. How are the groups like families at their best, and operating closer to what God meant for the Church? How does the church resemble a dysfunctional family? What would have to happen, according to the author, for the church to have only God and themselves left?
Essay Topic 2
Who is Dudley Knott? What challenges did he overcome? What types of work did he do? How did he become acquainted with the author? Why was the author astonished and delighted to know Knott? How did Knott die?
Essay Topic 3
The author taught on the east coast and in the mid-west. Explain his thoughts about each experience, using details from the book. Also, identify the major differences that existed between the two in regards to religious discussions, and the students he taught; and how these differences contributed to the author's experiences.
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