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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: p. 28-37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was there a furious dispute over the future direction of architecture?
(a) Bauhaus, Germany.
(b) Menglers, Germany.
(c) Gunkelrode, Germany.
(d) Solz, Germany.

2. On Eric's way up the mountain, he passed a boulder with plaques listing the names of people who had died where he was going to climb. How many names were on the plaques?
(a) 45.
(b) 50.
(c) 39.
(d) 62.

3. What did Eric spend much of one summer helping to rebuild?
(a) Houses of tornado victims.
(b) Farm buildings.
(c) Fences.
(d) House of hurricane victims.

4. When death is seen as a slicing of what God declared to be, then what is death?
(a) A friend.
(b) A dark pit.
(c) The enemy.
(d) A deep despair.

5. Who does Nicholas say "scarcely looks ahead; his plans are cautious, few, short-term"?
(a) A teenager.
(b) A groom.
(c) A new father.
(d) An old person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What elements did Nicholas believe would comfort him?

2. Now that Eric is gone, what does Nicholas say there is in the world now, on page 33?

3. How old was Eric when he nearly died because he would not admit that he could not swim?

4. How old was Eric when he asked Nicholas how "we know there's God?"

5. What does Nicholas say withers and what remains?

(see the answer key)

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