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

2. What renders distinctions between past, present and future meaningless, according to the author?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Memory.
(d) Healing.

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

4. In the Introduction, who does the author quote regarding the definition for "story" versus "plot?"
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) E.M. Forster.
(c) R. Kipling
(d) Himself.

5. In "Godric" what is the name of the father of the title character?
(a) Aslan.
(b) Aedlward.
(c) Teddy.
(d) Bean.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author likens his mother, in her later years, to a millionaire who what?

2. What was in the bowl on top of the bureau in the room of the author's mother?

3. How many failed marriages did the author's mother have after his father died?

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

5. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is the author telling his secrets?

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

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 does the author describe his father's suicide?

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

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

10. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"

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