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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. 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?
(a) The Prophet.
(b) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(c) Now and Then.
(d) The Last Battle

2. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?
(a) Spoiled.
(b) Good.
(c) Poisoned.
(d) Offal.

3. The author's mother's motto, translated from French is, "you have to ____ in order to be beautiful."
(a) Work.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) Suffer.
(d) Practice.

4. 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) Vermont.
(b) Illinois.
(c) California.
(d) Bermuda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?

2. Who wrote "The Last Battle?"

3. 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?

4. How old was the author when his father committed suicide?

5. Where were the ashes of the author's father buried?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?

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

3. How is the author's story, our story?

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

5. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?

6. How do ministers lose touch with God?

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

8. Why is the author telling his secrets?

9. How did author's mom respond to his fictionalized version of his father's death and how did her reaction to this fist telling affect the author's writing about the death later?

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

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