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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does this make Ira happy?
(a) He likes to be punctual.
(b) He hate funerals.
(c) No one is mourning Max.
(d) Maggie is sad.

2. What do they encounter on the highway?
(a) An animal running across the road.
(b) An erratic driver.
(c) An old, kind woman.
(d) A lot of traffic.

3. Who does Maggie hear on the radio?
(a) Her ex-daughter-in-law, Fiona.
(b) A song she loves.
(c) A discussion on talk radio.
(d) An annoying commercial .

4. What does Maggie add to Ira's life?
(a) Stress.
(b) Craziness.
(c) Spontaneity.
(d) Hope.

5. Why is their relationship essential to Ira?
(a) It helps him breathe and escape.
(b) He enjoys being with someone.
(c) Maggie is a great trophy wife.
(d) He likes to fight.

6. What is the novel Breathing Lessons about?
(a) Finding yourself.
(b) Improving one's life.
(c) Working out a commonplace marriage.
(d) Life lessons from the view of an elderly person.

7. What was Ira's dream?
(a) Own his own business.
(b) Get a Master's degree.
(c) He wanted to be a lawyer.
(d) To go to medical school.

8. What is the name of Ira and Maggie's daughter?
(a) Daisy.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Dominque.
(d) Dolly.

9. Why do they decide to go see Fiona?
(a) Ira admits he would like to see Leroy.
(b) Maggie threatens to divorce Ira otherwise.
(c) Because Ira cannot refuse Maggie on this subject.
(d) Jesse asks them to go.

10. What ambitions did Boris have?
(a) Move to NYC.
(b) Political.
(c) To be a lawyer.
(d) To be a great artist.

11. Who is Leroy?
(a) Maggie's granddaughter.
(b) The couple's son.
(c) The hotel owner.
(d) Maggie's lover.

12. Who sings with Maggie at the funeral?
(a) Michael.
(b) Boris.
(c) Durwood.
(d) Ira.

13. What does Maggie begin to imagine?
(a) Time when Ira and her had a good realtionship.
(b) A completely different life.
(c) A life without Ira.
(d) A life without children.

14. What does Maggie begin to think about?
(a) What her life might have been .
(b) Where Jesse is.
(c) What Ira is thinking .
(d) How Fiona is.

15. How was Ira treated by his parents?
(a) Ira ran away when he was younger.
(b) They loved him dearly.
(c) He was ignored.
(d) They spoiled him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Serena angry?

2. How does Maggie feel about her ex-classmates?

3. What is sung at the funeral?

4. What was Ira like when he and Maggie were in school?

5. What does Serena wear to the wedding?

(see the answer keys)

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