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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nicholas say that people need to go to comfort him?
(a) Visit him at home.
(b) Come close.
(c) Come to the cemetery.
(d) Spend time with him and his family.

2. Where did Eric die?
(a) Volderdorf.
(b) Kaisergebirger.
(c) Kaiserhaus.
(d) Hinterdorf.

3. If Eric's life was a gift, what does Nicholas say he and his family must resist?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Fear.
(c) Pain.
(d) Doubt.

4. What sacrament was celebrated at the funeral?
(a) Eucharist.
(b) Confirmation.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Absolution.

5. What type of trees were releasing their seeds when Eric was laid to rest?
(a) Maples.
(b) Cottonwoods.
(c) Birches.
(d) Willows.

6. In what city was Eric born?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) New Haven.
(d) Hartford.

7. Where were Nicholas and Eric when Eric wondered how he could know there is a God?
(a) In the car.
(b) In Eric's bedroom.
(c) Taking a walk.
(d) At the park.

8. What type of books were on a table in Eric's apartment?
(a) Art and mountaineering books.
(b) Bibles and devotionals.
(c) Architectural books.
(d) Books on pottery.

9. Who insisted on seeing Eric's body?
(a) His brother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

10. For whom was the liturgy used at Eric's funeral originally written?
(a) A friend suffering from brain cancer.
(b) A friend whose child died in infancy.
(c) A friend suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
(d) A friend whose son committed suicide.

11. On page 47, to what did memories lead Nicholas?
(a) Peace.
(b) Pain.
(c) Trust.
(d) Blackness.

12. What hope did not console Nicholas?
(a) Hope of the resurrection.
(b) Hope in life after death.
(c) Hope that God had a plan.
(d) Hope of seeing Eric again.

13. What does Nicholas remember lifting Eric from when he was born?
(a) A hospital isolette.
(b) His mother's womb.
(c) A cradle.
(d) A crib.

14. What did Eric spend much of one summer helping to rebuild?
(a) Farm buildings.
(b) House of hurricane victims.
(c) Fences.
(d) Houses of tornado victims.

15. What poet wrote about "inscape"?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) G. K. Chesterton.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) Robert Browning.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was Eric's apartment?

2. What did Eric give up because it did not fit his plans?

3. What day of the week did Eric die?

4. What author does Nicholas quote, who says that "No man is an island"?

5. Where did Eric spend many days in the last months of his life?

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