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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. In the room in which the author writes, how many pieces of stained glass sit in his windows?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Last rites.
(c) Ministers.
(d) Churches.

3. In complaining about her looks, what did the author's mother say "don't fit?"
(a) Wig.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Teeth.

4. The author said that he told his father's story both as the child "I was in 1936 and still am in ___."
(a) 1960.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1990.

5. What is the title of the first autobiography written by the author?
(a) The Sacred Journey.
(b) Now and Then.
(c) Telling Secrets.
(d) The Last Battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refers to themselves as the "last rose of summer?"

2. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?

3. What title did the author write when he was in his fifties and his mom was in her eighties?

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. Who made no new friends while living in New York for almost twenty years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most sacred function of memory?

2. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?

3. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?

4. How did the author's mother's aging affect her life?

5. Why is the author telling his secrets?

6. What illness did the author's daughter have and how did it affect her?

7. How do ministers lose touch with God?

8. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.

9. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?

10. How does the author describe God loving us, and loving his daughter?

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