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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. In the room of the author's mother what kind of magazines are on her chaise lounge?
(a) Home Making.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Movie.

2. When the dwarves are offered wine, what do they think it is?
(a) Poison.
(b) Blood.
(c) Tea with arsenic.
(d) Ditch water.

3. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?
(a) Change.
(b) Patience.
(c) Faith.
(d) Tragedy.

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

5. What condition made it almost impossible for the author's mom to walk during her last year of life?
(a) Fractured foot.
(b) Amputation.
(c) Arthritic knees.
(d) Severely bowed-legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what language is the dedication written in "Godric?"

2. What was the name of the woman the author's mother had trouble understanding because of her thick accent?

3. 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?

4. Losing track of our "____," according to the author, means being impoverished humanly and spiritually.

5. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?

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