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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ira like when he and Maggie were in school?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Happy-go-lucky.
(c) Removed; he had an ill family to support.
(d) Very popular.

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

3. Whose funeral are they attending?
(a) Their firend from out of town.
(b) Their son's.
(c) Serena's husband.
(d) Their granddaughter's.

4. How does this make Maggie feel?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angered.
(c) Annoyed .
(d) Confused.

5. How does he feel about his children?
(a) He has little reguard for them.
(b) He wishes he could connect with them.
(c) He leaves their upbringing to Maggie.
(d) He loves them dearly.

6. Where do they take the shaken old man?
(a) To his nephew at a service station.
(b) To a deli.
(c) To a coffee shop.
(d) To a resturant to get some food.

7. What does Serena wear to the wedding?
(a) A red dress.
(b) Very high heeled shoes.
(c) All black.
(d) A large hat.

8. What has happened to Maggie?
(a) She wants to have an affair.
(b) She feels she has fallen in love again.
(c) She misses her friends.
(d) She wishes she could divorce Ira.

9. What pleases Ira as they arrive at the funeral?
(a) No one is crying - it makes him uncomfortable.
(b) He and Maggie have made up .
(c) That they are the first to arrive.
(d) They are the only ones to bring a gift.

10. Does Ira wish to make an extra stop?
(a) Yes, because he needs a rest for the night.
(b) No, because he does not have money to stay the night.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

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

13. Over what period of time does the story take place?
(a) One day.
(b) One week.
(c) One month.
(d) A year.

14. What does Maggie demand?
(a) To be let out of the car.
(b) To call her son.
(c) To get the police.
(d) To go home.

15. Where is the couple traveling to in the first section of the book?
(a) California.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he do with most of his time?

2. What does Maggie do for Ira?

3. What does Maggie begin to imagine?

4. Why doesn't Ira want to see Leroy?

5. Why does this make Ira happy?

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