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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. In "Godric" what is the name of the father of the title character?
2. In the room of the author's mother what kind of magazines are on her chaise lounge?
3. What condition made it almost impossible for the author's mom to walk during her last year of life?
4. According to the author, what does God give us that helps us finish with the past and remove the power of the past to hurt us?
5. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the author's story, our story?
2. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?
3. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?
4. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
5. What did the author say he would deal with in this autobiography "Telling Secrets?"
6. 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?
7. Why is the author telling his secrets?
8. What illness did the author's daughter have and how did it affect her?
9. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?
10. How does the author describe God loving us, and loving his daughter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
On page 10 of the book, the author writes that "don't talk, don't trust, don't feel" is supposed to be the unwritten law of dysfunctional families. How does this "law" manifest itself in the author's life as a child when his father commits suicide, as well as in the immediate events following his father's death (e.g. the lack of a funeral, the family move out of the country, the mother's behavior, ...); and how does the "law manifest itself in later events involving the author and his brother's relationship with their mother as she aged?
Essay Topic 3
In Part Three of the book, the author talks about the groups that meet in the basement. He specifically details what each group does or does not do. Then he states that the church could learn a lot from such groups since the church, in his opinion, is more like a dysfunctional family, while the groups operate closer to what God intended for His church. Discuss this rationale. How are the groups like families at their best, and operating closer to what God meant for the Church? How does the church resemble a dysfunctional family? What would have to happen, according to the author, for the church to have only God and themselves left?
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