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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author dreamed about his mother after she ___.
(a) Moved to Bermuda.
(b) Remarried.
(c) Became ill.
(d) Died.

2. What room in the White Tower measures only four feet high?
(a) Chapel St. John.
(b) Little Ease.
(c) The Outer Ward.
(d) The Inner Ward.

3. The author's sick daughter was more afraid of what than death?
(a) Being rejected.
(b) Being hospitalized.
(c) Gaining weight.
(d) Coming home.

4. 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) 52.
(c) 32.
(d) 35.

5. The author met Professor Niebuhr at ___.
(a) Union Theological Seminary.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Wheaton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author go to wait with a friend who got news about a family accident?

2. In the Introduction, who does the author quote regarding the definition for "story" versus "plot?"

3. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?

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

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

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