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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does Nicholas think Eric might have been in a photo that shows him holding a fish longer than he was?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

2. What does Nicholas remember lifting Eric from when he was born?
(a) A crib.
(b) His mother's womb.
(c) A hospital isolette.
(d) A cradle.

3. As creatures of God, what does Nicholas say man should not yearn for?
(a) The life hereafter.
(b) Timeless disembodiment.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Heaven.

4. Where were Nicholas and Eric when Eric wondered how he could know there is a God?
(a) In the car.
(b) In Eric's bedroom.
(c) Taking a walk.
(d) At the park.

5. Who met Nicholas at the airport?
(a) Adrian.
(b) Bernhard.
(c) Albert.
(d) Karl.

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

7. In Eric's thesis, what person was he especially interested in writing about?
(a) German Bestelmeyer.
(b) Paul Schultze-Naumberg.
(c) Eugen Honig.
(d) Alexander von Senger.

8. What sacrament was celebrated at the funeral?
(a) Confirmation.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) Absolution.
(d) Eucharist.

9. What does Nicholas say that he had to fly across to retrieve Eric's body?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Europe.
(c) The United States.
(d) Mountains.

10. What type of books were on a table in Eric's apartment?
(a) Bibles and devotionals.
(b) Books on pottery.
(c) Art and mountaineering books.
(d) Architectural books.

11. How old was Eric when he died?
(a) 26.
(b) 28.
(c) 21.
(d) 25.

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

13. Who told Eric's friends that he had died?
(a) Bernhard.
(b) Nicholas.
(c) Eric's landlady.
(d) Eric's pastor.

14. Who had just left on a plane to see Eric?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) An aunt.
(c) A younger brother.
(d) An older sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the dispute over the future direction of architecture, what styles did the winners of the debate promote?

2. What did one of Eric's brothers place on the coffin?

3. What elements did Nicholas believe would comfort him?

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

5. On page 30, what does Nicholas say was found in Eric's apartment?

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