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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author describes his sick daughter's behavior as a way of striking out to be what?
2. In the Introduction, who does the author quote regarding the definition for "story" versus "plot?"
3. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?
4. In the room of the author's mother what kind of magazines are on her chaise lounge?
5. Where were the ashes of the author's father buried?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?
2. How is the author's story, our story?
3. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?
4. 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?
5. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
6. Why is the author telling his secrets?
7. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
8. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?
9. How do ministers lose touch with God?
10. What illness did the author's daughter have and how did it affect her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author talks about the pluralism of Harvard Divinity School. What makes Harvard pluralistic (as described by the author)? What happens in the author's Harvard classroom that helps him conclude that pluralism can become factionalism? What is factionalism (as presented in the book)?
Essay Topic 2
What happened in the author's dream about a hotel (provide details)? What did the room come to mean to the author? In reality what represented Eden to the author and why?
Essay Topic 3
The author wrote "Brendan" in 1987. How does the author describe Brendan the Navigator? Why does the author say he found another saint in reference to Brendan the Navigator? How does the author use this character and another to convey his belief that we are all crippled? Through Brendan what does the author offer as a solution to help those that are crippled?
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