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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. In complaining about her looks, what did the author's mother say "don't fit?"
(a) Teeth.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Wig.
(d) Glasses.
2. What is the title of the book the author wrote to tell the story of his father to a child?
(a) The Wizard's Tide.
(b) Ansel Gibbs.
(c) The Last Battle.
(d) Now and Then.
3. What did the author's mother use when she "struck to kill?"
(a) Chair.
(b) Cane.
(c) Book.
(d) Tongue.
4. In "The Last Battle", who stoops and touches the dwarves with his tongue?
(a) Teddy.
(b) Godric.
(c) Bean.
(d) Aslan.
5. How old was the author when his mother made him feel like a traitor for writing the fictionalized "Ansel Gibbs" about his father's death?
(a) 35.
(b) 32.
(c) 52.
(d) 40.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the room in which the author writes, how many pieces of stained glass sit in his windows?
2. What condition made it almost impossible for the author's mom to walk during her last year of life?
3. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?
4. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?
5. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why did the author's mother have so few friends as she got older?
3. What did the author say he would deal with in this autobiography "Telling Secrets?"
4. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?
5. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?
6. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?
7. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
8. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
9. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?
10. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?
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