Telling Secrets Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Telling Secrets Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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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. After his father's suicide, where did the author's mom move the family?

2. "For the last ____ years" of her life, the author's mother saw almost no one except immediate family.

3. Who wrote "The Last Battle?"

4. In the Introduction, what is the title of the book the author cites as dealing with the interior of his life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was on the stained glass pieces in the author's office?

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

3. How did the author's mother's aging affect her sons' lives?

4. How does the author describe his father's suicide?

5. What is the most sacred function of memory?

6. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author wrote "Brendan" in 1987. How does the author describe Brendan the Navigator? Why does the author say he found another saint in reference to Brendan the Navigator? How does the author use this character and another to convey his belief that we are all crippled? Through Brendan what does the author offer as a solution to help those that are crippled?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Dudley Knott? What challenges did he overcome? What types of work did he do? How did he become acquainted with the author? Why was the author astonished and delighted to know Knott? How did Knott die?

Essay Topic 3

The author talks about the pluralism of Harvard Divinity School. What makes Harvard pluralistic (as described by the author)? What happens in the author's Harvard classroom that helps him conclude that pluralism can become factionalism? What is factionalism (as presented in the book)?

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