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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Basement Room.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was the author's mother in his dream about her?
(a) 30s-40s.
(b) early 50s.
(c) 40s-50s.
(d) late 20s.

3. In what year did the author accept an invitation to teach at Harvard Divinity School?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1990.

4. How many failed marriages did the author's mother have after his father died?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Wheaton College is the alma mater of which one of these people?

3. In telling his father's story as a child, who does Teddy represent in this story?

4. The dream about the author's mother took place in what part of her apartment?

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

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