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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 the narrator compare aging to?
(a) A roller coaster ride.
(b) A long drive with young children.
(c) A drive with two dogs.
(d) Riding a bicycle downhill.

2. How does Mr. Vercueil appear to be in Part Three "p.115-147"?
(a) Drunk.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Tame.
(d) Excitable.

3. What does the narrator think about while being driven home?
(a) Her cancer.
(b) That she likes being drunk.
(c) Changing her will.
(d) The trust she put in Vercueil.

4. What does the narrator think of Vercueil's cooking?
(a) It is too salty.
(b) It is good.
(c) It is always the same thing.
(d) It is terrible.

5. What does the narrator think about after Vercueil left her alone?
(a) Her mistakes in life.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her death.
(d) The dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say to the young man her and her group meet as she rejects his request?

2. What does Florence learn late at night in Part Three?

3. What does the narrator's medications cause?

4. What does the narrator hope her daughter will do after the letters stop?

5. How does the narrator call the house of Parliament?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is playing on the television when Mr. Vercueil brings the television into the room?

2. Who does Florence dress as at the start of Part Four?

3. What was the narrator planning to do with her car?

4. What seems to ease Mrs. Curren's pain?

5. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

6. Why does Mr. Thabane advise the narrator to put a jacket over her head?

7. What does the policeman at the roadblock tell the narrator?

8. What happens to Mrs. Curren when she is lying down under an overpass?

9. Where do Mr. Vercueil and the narrator drive?

10. What horrific scene do they encounter when they walk?

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