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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. What is the title of the first autobiography written by the author?
2. What place did the author see as an act of God in his life that he paralleled to the entry into the Promised Land?
3. In what month during1936 did the author's father commit suicide?
4. What renders distinctions between past, present and future meaningless, according to the author?
5. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the author say he would deal with in this autobiography "Telling Secrets?"
2. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?
3. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?
4. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?
5. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?
6. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?
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 did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"
9. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.
10. How does the author describe his father's suicide?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author writes his own book introduction. What does the introduction reveal about the author? What purpose for the book is explained, and why is he writing another autobiography when he has already penned two such publications? What picture does the author create for the reader about expectations for this book, as well as his state of mind about the book's content?
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
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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