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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author in the Bible wrote that someone who dies is like a cloud that vanishes?
(a) Paul.
(b) David.
(c) Job.
(d) Solomon.

2. What poet wrote about "inscape"?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Robert Browning.
(c) G. K. Chesterton.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

3. In the dispute over the future direction of architecture, what styles did the winners of the debate promote?
(a) Post modern.
(b) Modern.
(c) International Style.
(d) High-tech.

4. What does Nicholas say withers and what remains?
(a) The flower withers and the effects remain.
(b) The grass withers and the weeds remain.
(c) The body withers and its belongings remain.
(d) The fruit withers and the seeds remain.

5. At the grave site, what type of trees did the wind rustle through?
(a) Cottonwood.
(b) Elm.
(c) Maple..
(d) Oak.

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

7. For whom was the liturgy used at Eric's funeral originally written?
(a) A friend suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
(b) A friend whose son committed suicide.
(c) A friend whose child died in infancy.
(d) A friend suffering from brain cancer.

8. What instruments were played at the funeral?
(a) Piano and organ.
(b) Harp and violin.
(c) Cello and recorder.
(d) Trumpet and flute.

9. 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) 62.
(b) 39.
(c) 45.
(d) 50.

10. What author does Nicholas quote, who says that "No man is an island"?
(a) Edmund Waller.
(b) John Donne.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Ben Jonson.

11. What book does Nicholas say affirms the goodness of creation?
(a) The Proverbs.
(b) The Book of John.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Psalms.

12. What hope did not console Nicholas?
(a) Hope of seeing Eric again.
(b) Hope of the resurrection.
(c) Hope in life after death.
(d) Hope that God had a plan.

13. Where does Nicholas say that people need to go to comfort him?
(a) Visit him at home.
(b) Come to the cemetery.
(c) Spend time with him and his family.
(d) Come close.

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

15. Where did Nicholas have to go to reclaim Eric's body?
(a) Alling.
(b) Karlsfeld.
(c) Kufstein.
(d) Ascheim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became Eric's major?

2. What passage from the Bible does Nicholas quote that says, "The grass withers, the flower fades"?

3. In what subjects of study did Eric excel?

4. Of all of the things to do when comforting someone who is in pain because of grief, what is the greatest thing to do?

5. What was the weather like on the night Eric was born?

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