The wisest person part two

The wisest person

part two​

By Waine Evans

Multiple Choice

Back in the ’70s, to help me make this point, let me _____ you to someone. I met the finest woman I’d ever met in my life. Mm-hmm (affirmative). Back in my day, we’d have called her a brickhouse.

• introduce

• introduces

• introducing

• introduced

Multiple Choice

This woman was the finest woman I’d ever seen in my life. There was just one little problem. _____ then, ladies didn’t like big old linemen. The Blind Side hadn’t come out yet.

• And

• Just

• Back

• Because

Multiple Choice

They liked quarterbacks and running back. We’re at this dance, and I find out her name is _____ Williams from Lompoc, California. We’re all dancing and we’re just excited.

• Tina

• Treena

• Teresa

• Trina

Multiple Choice

I decide in the middle of dancing with her that I would ask her for her _____ number. Trina was the first … Trina was the only woman in college who gave me her real telephone number.

• telephone

• mobile

• phone

• cellular

Multiple Choice

The next day, we walked to Baskin and Robbins Ice Cream Parlour. My friends couldn’t believe it.This has been _____ years ago, and my friends still can’t believe it. We go on a second date and a third date and a fourth date. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

• 10

• 20

• 30

• 40

Multiple Choice

We drive from Chico to Vallejo so that she can meet my parents. My father meets her. My daddy. My hero. He meets her, pulls me to the side and says,“Is she _____?” Anyway, we go together for a year, two years, three years, four years.

• crazy

• psycho

• stupid

• wired

Multiple Choice

By now,Trina’s a senior in college. I’m still a freshman, but I’m working some things out. I’m so glad I graduated in four terms, _____, _____, _____, _____.

• Ford, Nixon, Carter, Reagan.

• Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagan.

• Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan.

• Reagan, Ford, Carter, Nixon.

Multiple Choice

So, now, it’s time to propose, so I talk to her girlfriends, and it’s California. It’s in the ’70s, so it has to be outside, have to have a candle and you have to have some _____. Listen, I’m from the hood. I had a bottle of Boone’s Farm wine. That’s what I had. She said, “Yes.”

• chocolate

• ring

• flowers

• drinks

Multiple Choice

That was the key. I married the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my life. You all ever been to a wedding and even before the wedding starts, you hear this? “____________?” It was coming from my side of the family. We get married. We have a few children. Our lives are great.

• “Hows in the world?”

• “How in gods name?”

• “How on earth?”

• “How in the world?”

Multiple Choice

One day, Trina finds a lump in her left breast. Breast cancer. Six years after that diagnosis, me and my two little boys walked up to Mommy’s _____ and, for two years, my heart didn’t beat. If it wasn’t for my faith in God, I wouldn’t be standing here today.

• chest

• coffin

• casket

• box

Multiple Choice

If it wasn’t for those two little boys, there would have been no reason for which to go on. I was completely lost. That was rock bottom. You know what _____ me? The wisdom of a third-grade dropout, the wisdom of a simple cook.

• sustained

• comforted

• encouraged

• supported

Multiple Choice

We’re at the casket. I’d never seen my dad cry, but this time I saw my dad cry. That was his daughter. Trina was his daughter, not his ____________, and I’m right behind my father about to see her for the last time on this Earth,

• wife-in-law

• mother-in-law

• sister-in-law

• daughter-in-law

Multiple Choice

and my father shared three words with me that changed my life right there at the casket. It would be the last lesson he would ever teach me. He said, “__________." You keep standing. You keep standing.

• “Son, stand up"

• “Son, just stand"

• “Son, don't fall"

• “Son, just sit"

Multiple Choice

No matter how rough the sea, you keep standing, and I’m not talking about just water. You keep standing. No matter what. You don’t give up.” I _____ that lesson from a third-grade dropout,

• taught

• learn

• learned

• teached

Multiple Choice

and as _____ as I’m talking to you today, these were some of her last words to me. She looked me in the eye, and she said, “It doesn’t matter to me any longer how long I live, what matters to me most is how I live.”

• clearly

• plainly

• audibly

• clarity

Multiple Choice

I ask you all one question, a question that I was _____ all my life by a third-grade dropout. How you living? How you living? Every day, ask yourself that question. How you living?

• asked

• ask

• asks

• asking

Multiple Choice

Put the suggestions in the correct order you heard them

Here’s what a cook would suggest you to live, this way, that __________,

• if you’re going to do something, you do it the right way.

• you would show up early

• you’d be kind

• you would not judge

• you make sure that servant’s towel is huge and used

Multiple Choice

that __________,

• if you’re going to do something, you do it the right way.

• you would show up early

• you’d be kind

• you would not judge

• you make sure that servant’s towel is huge and used

Multiple Choice

that __________,

• if you’re going to do something, you do it the right way.

• you would show up early

• you’d be kind

• you would not judge

• you make sure that servant’s towel is huge and used

Multiple Choice

that __________,

• if you’re going to do something, you do it the right way.

• you would show up early

• you’d be kind

• you would not judge

• you make sure that servant’s towel is huge and used

Multiple Choice

that __________.

• if you’re going to do something, you do it the right way.

• you would show up early

• you’d be kind

• you would not judge

• you make sure that servant’s towel is huge and used

Multiple Choice

That cook would tell you this, that it’s never wrong to do the right thing, that how you do anything is how you do everything, and in that way, you will grow your _____ to make an impact.

• knowledge

• wisdom

• influence

• effect

Multiple Choice

In that way, you will honour all those who have gone before you who have invested in you. _____ in those unlikeliest places for wisdom.

• Look

• looking

• looks

• looked

Multiple Choice

_____ your life every day by seeking that wisdom and asking yourself every night, “How am I living?” May God richly bless you all.

• Increase

• Boost

• Escalate

• Enhance