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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Oliver respond?
(a) He really wants to stay in law school
(b) His tries to call his father at Jenny's insistence.
(c) He is willing to join with her if they can go to the South Pacific.
(d) Refuses to attend sports events in case he would encounter his father.

2. Who does Oliver see coming into the lobby as he is leaving?
(a) Oliver's mother.
(b) Jenny's sister.
(c) A priest to see Jenny.
(d) Oliver's father.

3. What does Phil do when he learns of Jenny's illness?
(a) Goes into a rage of denial and hangs up on Oliver.
(b) Moves into the apartment with Oliver and takes care of Oliver and visits Jenny.
(c) Flys to South America to find a cure about which he has read.
(d) Becomes so despondent that he cannot visit right away.

4. What does Oliver find difficult?
(a) Law.
(b) Going to work everyday.
(c) Not calling his father.
(d) Keeping things normal for Jenny.

5. What is the result of his ranking?
(a) He is offered many good jobs.
(b) He gets the dregs of the offerings for a job.
(c) He gets some offers of jobs, but not his first choices.
(d) He must figure out where he is by talking to others in his class.

6. How much money does Oliver get from his father?
(a) He does not get any money from his dad because he is estranged from him.
(b) $5,000.
(c) He asks for 20,000, but gets only 15,000.
(d) His father gives Oliver his entire inheritance.

7. What does Oliver do during that next year?
(a) Joins the Harvard crew team.
(b) Reconciles finally with his father.
(c) Works at a pizza place and goes to school.
(d) Works hard and edits and writes law articles.

8. What do they receive almost daily?
(a) Phone calls from Phil.
(b) Massages.
(c) Invitations to social events.
(d) The New York Times.

9. What is Oliver's standing in law school and what does it mean?
(a) He is near the bottom, which means he must re-take two classes.
(b) He is solidly in the middle, which means he is not eligible for any scholarship money.
(c) He is third, which means he has a position on the Law Review.
(d) He is first, which means he can skip some unimportant classes in the Fall.

10. Who is impressed with an article Oliver writes?
(a) Only Jenny.
(b) Oliver's entire law class.
(c) Phil and Jenny.
(d) Oliver's father.

11. How does Oliver satisfy both of their curiosity?
(a) He makes up names of people ahead of him.
(b) He learns he nudged out two women for the top position.
(c) He learns who is ahead of him.
(d) He finds out that a computer glitch misplaced him in the ranking.

12. What are Oliver's instructions to the doctor?
(a) To do everything to make Jenny as comfortable as possible.
(b) He wouldn't presume to give the doctors instructions.
(c) To let her die quickly.
(d) To do anything to save her life.

13. Why does Oliver go to Boston?
(a) To pick up Jenny's father at the airport.
(b) To ask his father for money.
(c) To talk to his grandmother.
(d) To consult with a specialist in leukemia.

14. Who does Oliver tell about Jenny's illness?
(a) No one.
(b) Phil.
(c) Jenny's sister.
(d) His mother.

15. After a short while, what does Oliver decide he would like?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A weekend home in the Poconos.
(c) A child.
(d) More vacation time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver do the first time they come to the apartment?

2. What does Jenny insist on continuing?

3. What does Oliver do for the first time in his adult life?

4. Why does he buy these tickets?

5. Where does the couple go for consultation?

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