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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. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?
(a) Heard.
(b) Healed.
(c) In control.
(d) Free.

2. In telling his father's story as a child, who does Teddy represent in this story?
(a) The author.
(b) The author's best friend.
(c) The author's father.
(d) The author's brother.

3. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?
(a) Halifax.
(b) Miami.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) Cape Hatteras.

4. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?
(a) Churches.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Ministers.
(d) Last rites.

5. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?
(a) The purse.
(b) The pillow.
(c) The fan.
(d) The cane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the ashes of the author's father buried?

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

3. What is the title of the first autobiography written by the author?

4. What condition made it almost impossible for the author's mom to walk during her last year of life?

5. How old was the author when his mother made him feel like a traitor for writing the fictionalized "Ansel Gibbs" about his father's death?

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