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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beth suggest Joe try to do?
(a) Get counselling.
(b) Try to sleep.
(c) Return to work.
(d) Talk to a priest.

2. What does Jim want most?
(a) To die.
(b) To be free.
(c) To return to his job.
(d) To find peace.

3. What does he do with the tracking device?
(a) Puts it on an idling taxi.
(b) Throws it into the garbage.
(c) Throws it into the back of a passing truck.
(d) Ties it to a stray dog.

4. Why is Joe annoyed by the two women who set up near him?
(a) He believes they are trying to pick him up.
(b) He thinks they are too obvious.
(c) He thinks they are too vulgar.
(d) He believes they have misidentified him.

5. What does he do while he waits for articles to be printed out?
(a) Talks to Dewey.
(b) Looks up crash archives.
(c) Talks to coworkers.
(d) Looks up funeral footage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe do?

2. Where does he stop next?

3. What does Joe claim he doesn't have the courage to do?

4. What does he realize as he drives through San Fernando Valley?

5. What does the woman at Michelle and the girls' graveside say to Joe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joe try to verify Rose?

2. What is searching behavior and who is it common to?

3. Why does Joe go to the beach in Santa Monica before going to visit the cemetery where his wife and daughters are?

4. Why does Joe experience these things despite not having been on the flight itself?

5. Who is at the Delmann house, and what surprises does she reveal?

6. What experience does Joe have at the bank when he tries to withdraw his own money?

7. What attitude seems consistent with the NTSB investigators that he manages to contact, including Barbara?

8. What is it about Dewey's greeting to Joe that embarrasses them both and exemplifies why Joe has avoided all of his old friends and colleagues?

9. Who does Joe try to reach when he returns to the motel, and why is it so difficult?

10. What does Joe remember as he reviews the strange events at the cemetery; what action does he take and what conclusions does he draw?

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