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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. The author dreamed about a hotel where the desk clerk told him the name of the room to which he wanted to return is called what?
2. From what book of the Bible does the author quote a scripture passage in the beginning of Part Two of the book?"
3. Who wrote "The Man Who Was Thursday?"
4. Which was the employer of the driver who later gave the author the license plate with the encouraging word imprinted on it that the author saw passing on the road?
5. What is Dudley Knott's wife's name?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the author's kids connect him with the outside world when they were small?
2. Who goes to Bermuda with the author when he is a child and how does he describe their arrival in Bermuda?
3. What did trying to help his daughter reveal to the author about his emotional state?
4. When do Dudley Knott and the author become friends?
5. What differences did the author write about among Union students as well as what they all shared?
6. What does the author tell us about his first two autobiographies?
7. Why does the author describe Bermuda as enchanting?
8. What dream did the author have about a hotel?
9. What did the author expect in a Harvard teaching experience that he did not get when he actually taught at Harvard Divinity School?
10. Besides complaints about him praying in his first class at Harvard, what other surprises did the author's students give him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author writes his own book introduction. What does the introduction reveal about the author? What purpose for the book is explained, and why is he writing another autobiography when he has already penned two such publications? What picture does the author create for the reader about expectations for this book, as well as his state of mind about the book's content?
Essay Topic 2
In Part One of the book, the author spends a few pages talking about memory. How does memory relate to the past? To healing? Why does the author make these distinctions about the past, about memory, about healing? How does memory function in relation to the past, the present and the future? How or can the past, present, and future be altered by memory? How did the author incorporate these factors into "The Wizard's Tide?"
Essay Topic 3
What happened in the author's dream about a hotel (provide details)? What did the room come to mean to the author? In reality what represented Eden to the author and why?
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