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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 was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?
(a) Ansel Gibbs.
(b) The Last Battle.
(c) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(d) Now and Then.

2. How many years after his father's suicide did the author write "The Return of Ansel Gibbs?"
(a) 12.
(b) 35.
(c) 15.
(d) 22.

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?
(a) 40.
(b) 35.
(c) 32.
(d) 52.

4. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

5. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?
(a) California.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?

2. In "The Last Battle", who stoops and touches the dwarves with his tongue?

3. What was the name of the woman who came nights but according to the author's mother was late because of the subway?

4. What did the author's mother use when she "struck to kill?"

5. To whom is the book "Godric" dedicated?

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