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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to the author, what is the doorway to healing and forgiveness?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Memory.
(d) Communciation.
2. What was the name of the woman the author's mother had trouble understanding because of her thick accent?
(a) Margorie.
(b) Yvonne.
(c) Margie.
(d) Evelyn.
3. 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) Bermuda.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.
4. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?
(a) Offal.
(b) Poisoned.
(c) Spoiled.
(d) Good.
5. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?
(a) 42nd.
(b) 79th.
(c) 69th.
(d) 82nd.
Short Answer Questions
1. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?
2. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?
3. In the room in which the author writes, how many pieces of stained glass sit in his windows?
4. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?
5. What was in the bowl on top of the bureau in the room of the author's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the author's story, our story?
2. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
3. Why is the author telling his secrets?
4. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
5. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?
6. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?
7. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?
8. How did the author's mother's aging affect her life?
9. What illness did the author's daughter have and how did it affect her?
10. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?
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