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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, the author tells us that this is his ___ venture into autobiography.
(a) Third.
(b) Fifth.
(c) First.
(d) Second.

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

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

4. In the room in which the author writes, how many pieces of stained glass sit in his windows?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

5. When the author's sick daughter had to be hospitalized, how many miles away was she?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Three acts of God mentioned by the author that appear in scripture are the Exodus, the ___, and the entry into the Promised Land.

3. When the dwarves are offered food, what do they think it is?

4. How old was the author when his father committed suicide?

5. What was the name of the woman who came nights but according to the author's mother was late because of the subway?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Why is the author telling his secrets?

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

4. What is the most sacred function of memory?

5. How does the author describe God loving us, and loving his daughter?

6. Why did the author's mother have so few friends as she got older?

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

8. Why does the author write "The Wizard's Tide" and what differs in the book from his childhood memory of his father's death?

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

10. How do ministers lose touch with God?

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