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

3. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?
(a) The purse.
(b) The cane.
(c) The fan.
(d) The pillow.

4. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

5. Losing track of our "____," according to the author, means being impoverished humanly and spiritually.
(a) Feelings.
(b) Stories.
(c) Memories.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?

2. The author's mother lived to within how many days of her ninety-second birthday?

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

4. In the room of the author's mother what kind of magazines are on her chaise lounge?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author describe his father's suicide?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. How do ministers lose touch with God?

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

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

10. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?

(see the answer keys)

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