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

2. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?
(a) Free.
(b) In control.
(c) Heard.
(d) Healed.

3. The author likens his mother, in her later years, to a millionaire who what?
(a) Has to get a job.
(b) Runs out of money.
(c) Wants to help everyone.
(d) Hoardes money.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One of the book, what was not a tradition in the Buechner family in relation to death?

2. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.

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

4. According to the author, what is the doorway to healing and forgiveness?

5. Losing track of our "____," according to the author, means being impoverished humanly and spiritually.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is the author telling his secrets?

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

6. What is the most sacred function of memory?

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

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

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

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

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