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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 day of the week was Eric's body returned to them?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.

2. What does Nicholas say that a friend's silence is to his wounds?
(a) Comfort.
(b) Salt.
(c) Love.
(d) Lotion.

3. 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) Love.
(c) Hope.
(d) Remembering.

4. Who said tears would make "a pillow for my heart"?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Clement.
(c) Ignatius of Antioch.
(d) James the Just.

5. What passage from the Bible does Nicholas quote that says, "The grass withers, the flower fades"?
(a) I Corinthians 15.
(b) Ecclesiastes 3.
(c) Isaiah 40.
(d) Psalm 103.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made a special cloth used during the funeral?

2. What day of the week did Nicholas receive the call that his son died?

3. What became Eric's major?

4. What did Eric spend much of one summer helping to rebuild?

5. Where was there a furious dispute over the future direction of architecture?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Nicholas feel at the graveside?

3. What does Nicholas believe would be insipid?

4. Why is it necessary for some to see the body of the one who died?

5. What was the history behind the liturgy that was used at Eric's funeral?

6. What was Eric's educational background?

7. When was Eric born and when did he die?

8. What did Eric look like in his coffin?

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

10. Why would Nicholas get angry with Eric?

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