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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 did Eric spend many days in the last months of his life?
(a) The buildings in the School of Architecture.
(b) The library.
(c) A small church.
(d) A friend's apartment.

2. What is one of the profoundest features of the Christian and Jewish way of being-in-the-world and being-in-history?
(a) Faith.
(b) Hope.
(c) Love.
(d) Remembering.

3. What mountain did Eric plan to climb later that summer?
(a) Eiger.
(b) Elbrus.
(c) Nadelhorn.
(d) Matterhorn.

4. When was there a furious dispute over the future direction of architecture?
(a) 1940's.
(b) 1930's.
(c) 1950's.
(d) 1920's.

5. When it comes to grief, what people need to be corrected eventually and gently?
(a) People who can no longer love.
(b) People who believe things are more awful than they really are.
(c) People who have no faith.
(d) People who have become embittered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nicholas say "scarcely looks ahead; his plans are cautious, few, short-term"?

2. What did Eric's landlady say he loved more than anything?

3. What poet wrote about "inscape"?

4. What type of books were on a table in Eric's apartment?

5. Where were Nicholas and Eric when Eric wondered how he could know there is a God?

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