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

5. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?
(a) Miami.
(b) Cape Hatteras.
(c) Halifax.
(d) Bermuda.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what language is the dedication written in "Godric?"

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

5. How many years after his father's suicide did the author write "The Return of Ansel Gibbs?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 life?

5. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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