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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. 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?
2. On what street was the apartment in which the author's mother died?
3. The author said that he told his father's story both as the child "I was in 1936 and still am in ___."
4. What was the name of the woman the author's mother had trouble understanding because of her thick accent?
5. To whom is the book "Godric" dedicated?
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. How do ministers lose touch with God?
3. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?
4. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
5. Why is the author telling his secrets?
6. How is the author's story, our story?
7. Why did the author's mother have so few friends as she got older?
8. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?
9. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?
10. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After the author's mother-in-law dies, he and his wife spend time in Florida, where he begins seeing another therapist. How does this therapy help him forgive and understand his father? His mother? What did the author dream about that helped this process? What did the author realize he had passed on to his kids after going through this process?
Essay Topic 2
The author, in Part One, talks about loving self like you love a neighbor, also expounding on the love of God. Discuss how this information ties in with the authors warning about bleeding hearts; how he came to feel again the hush of God; and how he realized as his daughter healed, he needed healing himself because he had been "huddled" in a dark stable of his own making.
Essay Topic 3
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?"
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