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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the weather like when Nicholas received the call that Eric died?
(a) Stormy.
(b) Cloudy.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Sunny.

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

3. What type of spices did Eric have in his cupboard?
(a) Indian.
(b) Indonesian.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Chinese.

4. One of Nicholas's friends had a son who died several weeks before Eric. How did this young man die?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Brain tumor.
(d) Leukemia.

5. What did Eric spend summers doing while in college?
(a) Computer programming.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Teaching art.
(d) Mountain biking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair did Eric have?

2. Where did Eric spend many days in the last months of his life?

3. When was there a furious dispute over the future direction of architecture?

4. What book does Nicholas say affirms the goodness of creation?

5. What day of the week did Eric die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things remind Nicholas that Eric is gone?

2. How did Nicholas learn that his son died?

3. What does Nicholas say it is to be human?

4. What was the dispute over the future direction of architecture?

5. Why did Eric climb the mountain alone?

6. What would Nicholas do if the clock could be turned back?

7. How did Nicholas feel at the graveside?

8. In what way does the world look different to Nicholas after his son's death?

9. What does Nicholas not want to hear as he grieves?

10. What sacrament was celebrated at Eric's funeral?

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