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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tends to more publicly lose touch with themselves and with God, according to the author?
(a) Kids.
(b) Ministers.
(c) Parents.
(d) Authors.

2. Who made no new friends while living in New York for almost twenty years?
(a) The author.
(b) The author's father.
(c) Mrs. Buechner.
(d) Mrs. Frederick Buechner.

3. Losing track of our "____," according to the author, means being impoverished humanly and spiritually.
(a) Memories.
(b) Faith.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Stories.

4. How many years had the author been married by the mid 1970's?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. Where were the ashes of the author's father buried?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Hackensack.
(c) Essex.
(d) Union City.

6. What fell behind the radiator and required that the building superintendent come to retrieve it?
(a) The pillow.
(b) The fan.
(c) The cane.
(d) The purse.

7. To whom is the book "Godric" dedicated?
(a) A grandparent.
(b) A father.
(c) A mother.
(d) A sibling.

8. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

9. In "The Last Battle", who stoops and touches the dwarves with his tongue?
(a) Godric.
(b) Teddy.
(c) Bean.
(d) Aslan.

10. According to the author, what is the doorway to healing and forgiveness?
(a) Communciation.
(b) Memory.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

11. Who wrote "The Last Battle?"
(a) Frederick Buechner.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) E.M. Forster.

12. What is the title of the first autobiography written by the author?
(a) The Sacred Journey.
(b) The Last Battle.
(c) Now and Then.
(d) Telling Secrets.

13. 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?
(a) 35.
(b) 52.
(c) 32.
(d) 40.

14. The author's sick daughter was more afraid of what than death?
(a) Being hospitalized.
(b) Coming home.
(c) Gaining weight.
(d) Being rejected.

15. How old was the author when his father committed suicide?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after his father's suicide did the author write "The Return of Ansel Gibbs?"

2. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?

3. What was the make of the family car used for the 1936 suicide?

4. The author said that he told his father's story both as the child "I was in 1936 and still am in ___."

5. In telling his father's story as a child, who does Teddy represent in this story?

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