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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie add to Ira's life?

2. Who is Jerry?

3. What kind of wife did Boris want?

4. What are difficult events in life?

5. What does Serena make a mental note of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ira and Maggie meet?

2. What kind of ambitions did Boris have?

3. What does Maggie beg of Fiona?

4. What does Ira spend most of his time doing?

5. How does Ira feel about his granddaughter?

6. Where does Serena find Ira and Maggie?

7. What does the couple hear on the radio?

8. What did Maggie do to try to see Leroy?

9. Does Ira love his children?

10. How does Ira react when he learns that Fiona and Leroy are coming for a visit?

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