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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. As the author's mother aged, she complained about her looks, saying her hair looked like what?
2. The author's mother's motto, translated from French is, "you have to ____ in order to be beautiful."
3. 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?
4. How many years after his father's suicide did the author write "The Return of Ansel Gibbs?"
5. In telling his father's story as a child, who does Teddy represent in this story?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the author's mother's aging affect her life?
2. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?
3. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
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. What is the most sacred function of memory?
7. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?
8. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
9. What illness did the author's daughter have and how did it affect her?
10. Why is the author telling his secrets?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is the author's daughter sick? How did she get well? How did the increasing wellness of his daughter, help the author to realize that he was not well? How does the author explain what happens to someone who after being sick for so long is suddenly well? How does this new "freedom" affect them?
Essay Topic 2
In Part One of the book, the author spends a few pages talking about memory. How does memory relate to the past? To healing? Why does the author make these distinctions about the past, about memory, about healing? How does memory function in relation to the past, the present and the future? How or can the past, present, and future be altered by memory? How did the author incorporate these factors into "The Wizard's Tide?"
Essay Topic 3
In the Introduction, the author writes that 1) telling secrets makes it easier to see where we have been and where we are going; 2) it makes it easier for others to share their secrets; and 3) that exchanges like this is what being a family, and being human is all about. Using details from Part One, Part Two and Part Three of the book, provide details from the authors life experiences that support each of the three statements (1,2 3) above?
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