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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Charity had some trees cut down?
(a) For better water flow
(b) To build onto the house
(c) For soil conservation
(d) To create a better view

2. Why is Hallie feeling ashamed of herself?
(a) For gaining weight
(b) For marrying the wrong man
(c) For being critical of her mother
(d) For failing in her mother's eyes

3. Larry says that people are made to _______________________________.
(a) Improve the world
(b) Be happy
(c) Survive whatever happens to them
(d) Find their destiny

4. What does Sid finally rationalize?
(a) He has failed his children
(b) Charity is set on dying
(c) The car will not start
(d) His career choice was a mistake

5. What does Charity insist that she is doing?
(a) Trying to die right
(b) Trying to sleep
(c) Trying to finish a novel
(d) Trying to take her pills

6. Where are Sid and Charity when Larry and Sally arrive?
(a) Washing the cars
(b) Working in the garden
(c) Sitting on recliners
(d) Playing golf

7. What is Charity giving to each of her children?
(a) Books she has kept about them since birth
(b) Family heirlooms
(c) Copies of her will
(d) Jewelry and clothing

8. What does Charity say is all she needed to make her death the way she has envisioned it?
(a) To see her children
(b) To see her grandchildren
(c) To see another Christmas
(d) To see Larry and Sally

9. How does Sally get to the terrace?
(a) Larry carries her
(b) She uses crutches
(c) She uses a cane
(d) She uses a wheelchair

10. What does Charity do when she sees the Morgans?
(a) Smiles
(b) Faints
(c) Cries
(d) Screams

11. Charity says that there is no decent literature on what subject?
(a) Cultivating raspberries
(b) Environmentalism
(c) How to die
(d) Cancer treatments

12. What has Charity refused to do?
(a) Get sunshine
(b) Take vitamins
(c) Get exercise
(d) Have chemotherapy

13. What creature does Larry rescue?
(a) A cat
(b) A deer
(c) A mouse
(d) A dog

14. What year is it in the story as Part2: Chapter 1 begins?
(a) 1962
(b) 1972
(c) 1938
(d) 1945

15. What is Hallie's profession?
(a) Securities Analyst
(b) Psychoanalyst
(c) Artist
(d) Professor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sally ask Larry to do?

2. Where do the Morgans live now?

3. Where do Sid, Larry and Sally find Charity?

4. Who took care of Sally when she was first diagnosed?

5. Why does Sid not want to go on the picnic?

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