2. What is the title of the book the author wrote to tell the story of his father to a child?
(a) The Wizard's Tide.
(b) The Last Battle.
(c) Ansel Gibbs.
(d) Now and Then.

3. In describing what he learned after his father's death, what does the author consider a means of grace?
(a) Change.
(b) Patience.
(c) Faith.
(d) Tragedy.

4. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?
(a) Offal.
(b) Spoiled.
(c) Poisoned.
(d) Good.

5. What was the title of the lost book the author's mother hunted for in her room?
(a) Now and Then.
(b) The Last Battle.
(c) Les Malheurs de Sophie.
(d) Ansel Gibbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In regards to beauty, the author's mother said you have a better chance of finding a lost cane again, than finding what?

2. In the Introduction, who does the author quote regarding the definition for "story" versus "plot?"

3. To the author's mother, being beautiful was her ______.

4. In the Introduction, the author tells us that this is his ___ venture into autobiography.

5. In the mid 1970's, how may teenage children did the author have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author deal with in first two autobiographies?

2. Why/how does the author identify with one of the stained glass images?

3. 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?

4. What did the author say he would deal with in this autobiography "Telling Secrets?"

5. Describe the author's mother's bedroom in her 79th street apartment.

6. What is the most sacred function of memory?

7. Why did the author feel like a dwarf as depicted in C. S. Lewis' "The Last Battle?"

8. According to the author, how does memory help us finish with the past?

9. How did the author's mother's aging affect her life?

10. How did the daughter being sick affect the author?

(see the answer keys)

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