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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. Who wrote "The Last Battle?"
(a) E.M. Forster.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) Frederick Buechner.

2. What is the title of the book the author wrote to tell the story of his father to a child?
(a) Ansel Gibbs.
(b) The Wizard's Tide.
(c) Now and Then.
(d) The Last Battle.

3. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?
(a) 1.
(b) None.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?
(a) Change.
(b) Faith.
(c) Patience.
(d) Tragedy.

5. In regards to beauty, the author's mother said you have a better chance of finding a lost cane again, than finding what?
(a) Kissable lips and golden hair.
(b) Clear eyes and blemish free skin.
(c) Blue eyes and golden hair.
(d) Wrinkle free and smooth skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?

2. In "The Last Battle", who stoops and touches the dwarves with his tongue?

3. In the Introduction, the author tells us that this is his ___ venture into autobiography.

4. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.

5. In complaining about her looks, what did the author's mother say "don't fit?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the author's mother have so few friends as she got older?

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

3. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?

4. Why is the author telling his secrets?

5. What did the author say he would deal with in this autobiography "Telling Secrets?"

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

7. How do ministers lose touch with God?

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

9. What is the most sacred function of memory?

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

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