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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change does Rachel notice in Izzy during his hospital stay?
(a) He is slower to criticize Shirley.
(b) He is more energetic than before.
(c) He loses weight rapidly.
(d) He is less gruff with the doctors and nurses.

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

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

4. What does Rachel say when the family reminisces about Izzy in Chapter 42?
(a) He beat me at Scrabble.
(b) I loved Grandpa.
(c) He built bridges.
(d) We both like black jellybeans.

5. In Chapter 39, what is true about Izzy's lunch on Monday?
(a) He says it's salty.
(b) He only eats the lime jello.
(c) He doesn't eat it.
(d) He says it's bland.

6. How does Jeremy feel about Izzy?
(a) He is apathetic.
(b) He is overwhlemed with sadness.
(c) He's still sore at him.
(d) He's feels sorry for a man who pushed people away.

7. Where does the person who spends the night with Izzy on the Saturday he says he is afraid to sleep actually sleep?
(a) On a small pull out couch.
(b) In an empty patient bed.
(c) In the big chair.
(d) On a cot.

8. Who arrives in Manny's room and asks Rachel to leave around 11 each day?
(a) Dr. North.
(b) The red haired nurse.
(c) A lab tach.
(d) Alice Farnum.

9. What do the Coopers and Izzy do in Chapter 35?
(a) Everyone reads their own book.
(b) Watch a Marx Brothers movie.
(c) Everyone listens to Rachel read a western that Izzy likes.
(d) Watch golf on TV.

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

11. How is Izzy's mood the day after his treatment?
(a) He seems resigned and lacks energy.
(b) Better, he is his crotchedy old self.
(c) Subdued, as he sleeps most of the day.
(d) Agitated and restless.

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

13. What is the day like when Rachel walks up and down West Creek Street counting the bridges?
(a) Sun is starting to peek through the cloud cover.
(b) Downpouring.
(c) Drizzly and dirty.
(d) Hazy, but the rain has stopped.

14. What does Rachel write a story about in Chapter 44?
(a) Two teens falling in love.
(b) A woman on a roof.
(c) A stonemason looking for a handprint.
(d) A girl named Mouse.

15. What does Rachel thank the person she speaks to in Chapter 45 for doing?
(a) Sticking with her.
(b) Being so patient.
(c) Encouraging her.
(d) Putting up with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel tell Lewis about returning to school in Chapter 37?

2. What does Dr. North tell Izzy when the patient asks when he will be able to go home?

3. In Rachel's journal account of Chapter 39, why does she say that Shirley had to leave Izzy on Sunday?

4. What is the funny story that Phil tells about Izzy?

5. What did Izzy leave in his medicine cabinet that his family finds after his death?

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