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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 does the author describe as the "living heart and command center" of his mother's room?
(a) Bureau.
(b) Chaise Lounge.
(c) Bed.
(d) Dressing Table.

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

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

4. 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) Now and Then.
(c) The Sacred Journey.
(d) Telling Secrets.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.

2. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?

3. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?

4. What is the title of the book written by Kahlil Gibran that is on the table next to the chaise lounge in the author's mother's room?

5. The author said that he told his father's story both as the child "I was in 1936 and still am in ___."

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