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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. Morrie believed in reincarnation. How did he want to come back?
(a) As a deer.
(b) As a leopard.
(c) As a gazelle.
(d) As a better person.

2. Mitch asked what Morrie would do if he was granted one more perfectly healthy day. What would Morrie have done?
(a) He would sleep all day.
(b) He would try to change the world.
(c) He would do something he always wanted to do and never did before.
(d) The things he would normally do when he was still healthy.

3. According to Morrie, what is the biggest defect humans being have?
(a) Sickness.
(b) Shortsightedness.
(c) Poorness.
(d) Intelligence.

4. How long did Morrie work in the mental institute?
(a) Six years.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Five years.

5. Why did Morrie still want to hear about other people's problems, even though he was dying?
(a) Because he liked to hear about other people's problems.
(b) Because that's what made him feel alive.
(c) Because he wanted to solve all the problems in the world.
(d) Because that was what made him feel intelligent.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the third interview, Morrie told Ted Koppel that the disease could have his body, but what was the disease not allowed to get?

2. What is the only new thing that had been added to Morrie's study on the eighth Tuesday visit?

3. When Mitch asked Morrie why so many people always wish they were young again, what did Morrie answer?

4. Why was Mitch angry at his younger brother?

5. When did Morrie stop breathing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who belongs to Mitch's family?

2. Morrie could not eat the food that Mitch still brought for him by the tenth Tuesday. Why did Mitch still bring food for Morrie?

3. According to Morrie, who was responsible for the brainwashing taking place all over the country and what is the result?

4. What did Morrie's family do when he lapsed into a coma?

5. When the OJ Simpson verdict was showing on television, what was everybody doing?

6. How do readers know that Brandeis college was a hotbed for cultural activism?

7. What was the bleak truth about Morrie not being able to wipe his own behind anymore by the time of the third Nightline interview?

8. Nightline returned for a third and final time. Ted Koppel asked Morrie if, as he got closer to dying, he was more afraid. How did Morrie respond?

9. On the twelfth Tuesday, Morrie talked about a good friend whom he never forgave and regretted it. What happened back then?

10. One of Morrie's first jobs was at a mental institution outside of Washington D.C. What did he do there?

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