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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. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?
2. In what month during1936 did the author's father commit suicide?
3. What was the name of the woman who came nights but according to the author's mother was late because of the subway?
4. What was the name of the woman the author's mother had trouble understanding because of her thick accent?
5. In what language is the dedication written in "Godric?"
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the author's mother have so few friends as she got older?
2. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
3. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?
4. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?
5. Why is the author telling his secrets?
6. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?
7. 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?
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 was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?
10. How do ministers lose touch with God?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author talks about being as deaf about his family and himself as his mother was, even with a purse full of half or not working hearing aids. The author uses two pieces of stained glass in his office to help readers understand this time in his life. Explain how the author felt he was "deaf" about his life and how he used the stained glass pieces to convey these experiences, thoughts and feelings to readers.
Essay Topic 2
At the end of Part One of the book, the author talks about ministers losing themselves and setting aside their own experiences when they preach. Explain this position. Then discuss how the author views such behavior is detrimental not only to the ministers, but their congregations as well. Why does the author include these observations at this point in the book?
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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