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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Boris upset with Maggie?
(a) She paid too much attention to friends.
(b) She loved her dog too much.
(c) She would not have sex with him.
(d) He did not understand her liking of working in a nursing home.

3. Who does Serena wish was at the funeral?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Leroy.
(c) No one.
(d) Shannon.

4. Who does Maggie begin talking to?
(a) The hostess.
(b) The hotel owner.
(c) A waitress.
(d) An attractive man.

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

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

7. What does Serena ask of Ira and Maggie?
(a) That they sing.
(b) For them to hold her hand.
(c) They kiss.
(d) For some moral support.

8. How does Maggie deal with her mood?
(a) Makes sarcastic remarks to him.
(b) Continues to talk.
(c) Yells at Ira.
(d) Is silent.

9. What does Ira wish existed in his life?
(a) A new house.
(b) Spontaneity.
(c) New people.
(d) Riches.

10. Why does Maggie beg Ira to go back to the swerving car?
(a) Ira is the one that insists they go back.
(b) Because the elderly driver needs some help.
(c) She thinks they caused the accident.
(d) She wants to make sure the other driver is fine.

11. Serena never wants to _______ anyone.
(a) yell at
(b) alarm
(c) hurt
(d) dissapoint

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

13. Why is Serena angry?
(a) She hits on a man, but the feelings are not returned .
(b) She wishes she could have Max back.
(c) She finds Maggie and Ira together in a bedroom.
(d) She does not think others are sad by Max's passing.

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

15. What is obvious about Maggie and Ira?
(a) Their personality difference.
(b) Their love for each other.
(c) Their quest for mutual happiness.
(d) They obviously do not love each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie think of the request?

2. As the couple drives along the highway, where does Maggie think they should go?

3. What does Ira think of other people?

4. What is Maggie to Ira?

5. Why does Ira scold Maggie?

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