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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What special request did Izzy have in regards to his funeral?
(a) He asked to be cremated.
(b) He specified that there should be no funeral.
(c) He asked to have Rachel read a passage.
(d) He wanted the funeral to be simple with no flowers or fuss.

2. What does Rachel ask Jeremy on their walk?
(a) If she should stop sending letters.
(b) If she can come to visit him.
(c) Why he never answers her letters.
(d) Why he moved so far away.

3. How does Jeremy get home?
(a) He rides out with MB.
(b) He flies.
(c) He rides a motorcycle.
(d) He hitchhikes.

4. What did Izzy leave in his medicine cabinet that his family finds after his death?
(a) A short letter to Rachel.
(b) An appointment card for a different doctor.
(c) A bag of black jellybeans.
(d) A note with instrutions about his death.

5. What do Lewis and Rachel go look for on the Saturday they fill their back packs with food?
(a) Izzy's handprint.
(b) The bridge where Izzy proposed to Eva.
(c) The firetower.
(d) Eva's handprint.

6. What does Rachel do when Izzy falls, for a second time, according to her journal entries?
(a) Screams.
(b) Calls for help.
(c) Freezes and does nothing.
(d) Catches him.

7. What does Rachel hear in Chapter 34 when she is outside of Izzy's hospital room?
(a) Shirley crying.
(b) Izzy groaning.
(c) Alice Farnum laughing.
(d) The nurses gossiping.

8. Where does Rachel take Izzy when he starts to collapse on Baker Street during their Saturday walk?
(a) To a shaded tree and lets him rest on the ground.
(b) Into a nearby restaurant.
(c) Into a nearby hardware story.
(d) Into a nearby ice cream shop.

9. How does Dr. North respond to Rachel's concerns that she should have made Izzy rest more?
(a) He says she is too young to be taking care of him anyway.
(b) He doesn't answer he.
(c) He says she has probably helped him live longer.
(d) He says it is just fluid accumulation.

10. Who waits outside of Izzy's hotel room with Rachel in Chapter 34?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Manny and Shirley.
(c) Jeremy and Alice Farnum.
(d) Helena.

11. What does Jeremy point out to Rachel when they take their walk on the day they scatter Izzy's ashes?
(a) A drugstore where he worked as a teenager.
(b) A park that Manny took him to.
(c) A park where he used to go to draw and paint.
(d) A crummy little market where teens used to hang out.

12. What does Rachel tell Shirley she wants to do the Monday after Izzy is hospitalized?
(a) Skip school to be with Izzy.
(b) Interview Izzy with a cassette recorder.
(c) Spend the nights with Izzy and catch the school bus near the hospital.
(d) Bring Izzy to stay at the Cooper's house.

13. Who is at Izzy's apartment when he and Rachel return from their first walk after his second fall?
(a) Alice Farnum.
(b) Manny and Shirley.
(c) Helena, Mikey, and Lewis.
(d) Jeremy and Lenny.

14. Why does Rachel finally decide that she is so angry in Chapter 31?
(a) She is angry that Helena leads such a charmed life.
(b) She is angry that her mother treats her like a child.
(c) She is angry that Izzy is dying.
(d) She is angry that Izzy is too stubborn to go to the hospital.

15. Where is Izzy taken directly after collapsing on Baker Street?
(a) To Rachel's house.
(b) To the diner.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To his apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Phil?

2. What does Rachel say that her parents look like on the night that she stays at the hospital with Izzy?

3. What does the family plant in Izzy's memory?

4. Where are Rachel and Izzy when the old man falls again in Chapter 31?

5. What does Rachel do when she returns to school the Wednesday after Izzy is hospitalized?

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