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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. Who made no new friends while living in New York for almost twenty years?
2. In the Introduction, the author tells us that this is his ___ venture into autobiography.
3. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?
4. In complaining about her looks, what did the author's mother say "don't fit?"
5. In the room in which the author writes, how many pieces of stained glass sit in his windows?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?
2. 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?
3. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
4. What is the most sacred function of memory?
5. How is the author's story, our story?
6. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?
7. How do ministers lose touch with God?
8. Why is the author telling his secrets?
9. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
10. What did the author say he would deal with in this autobiography "Telling Secrets?"
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
Explain what the author means when he writes that by watching and listening we are praying. How does God speak to us in quietness? What is "God's place" in us? What deadens us to God's presence within us? How does Psalm 131 illustrate these points from the author?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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