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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dwarves in the Stable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title did the author write when he was in his fifties and his mom was in her eighties?
(a) The Return of Ansel Gibbs.
(b) The Sacred Journey.
(c) Now and Then.
(d) Telling Secrets.

2. Who refers to themselves as the "last rose of summer?"
(a) Mrs. Buechner.
(b) Mrs. Frederick Buechner.
(c) Yvonne.
(d) Dorothy Parker.

3. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 25 years.

4. In what month during1936 did the author's father commit suicide?
(a) November.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) December.

5. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?
(a) Good.
(b) Poisoned.
(c) Spoiled.
(d) Offal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?

2. What renders distinctions between past, present and future meaningless, according to the author?

3. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?

4. According to the author, what does God give us that helps us finish with the past and remove the power of the past to hurt us?

5. What was in the bowl on top of the bureau in the room of the author's mother?

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