View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charity say about the state of her health?
(a) She has been cured
(b) She is in remission
(c) She is holding her own
(d) She is going to die soon

2. How does Larry describe the foursome of the Langs and the Morgans?
(a) A great golf team
(b) Twin siblings of different mothers
(c) Two peas in a pod
(d) Two Adams and two Eves

3. Who has a birthday party at the beginning of Part 2: Chapter 2?
(a) Sid
(b) Larry
(c) Charity
(d) Lang and David

4. What does Sid finally rationalize?
(a) His career choice was a mistake
(b) He has failed his children
(c) Charity is set on dying
(d) The car will not start

5. Why is Hallie feeling ashamed of herself?
(a) For gaining weight
(b) For being critical of her mother
(c) For marrying the wrong man
(d) For failing in her mother's eyes

6. Who walks up to meet the family as the picnic is ending?
(a) Hallie
(b) Moe
(c) Sid
(d) Sally

7. In what city are the Morgans living in the flashback in Part 2: Chapter 4?
(a) Venice
(b) Rome
(c) Florence
(d) Milan

8. What does Charity insist that she is doing?
(a) Trying to die right
(b) Trying to finish a novel
(c) Trying to sleep
(d) Trying to take her pills

9. What do the Langs and Morgans plan to do at the end of the summer?
(a) Take a 100-mile walking trip
(b) Go to New York for a theater trip
(c) Go whitewater rafting
(d) Spend a week at Walden Pond

10. Where do Sid, Larry and Sally find Charity?
(a) In the pool
(b) In bed
(c) In her recliner
(d) On the back porch

11. How does Sally get to the terrace?
(a) Larry carries her
(b) She uses a wheelchair
(c) She uses crutches
(d) She uses a cane

12. Where did Sid teach after losing his job in Wisconsin?
(a) Dartmouth
(b) Duke
(c) Princeton
(d) Yale

13. What is Hallie's profession?
(a) Psychoanalyst
(b) Artist
(c) Professor
(d) Securities Analyst

14. Why does Sid not want to go on the picnic?
(a) He has to get up early tomorrow
(b) He knows Charity is planning to die when he's gone
(c) He has had the flu
(d) He sunburns too easily

15. What is the condition of Sid's barn?
(a) Empty
(b) Meticulous
(c) Organized chaos
(d) Chaotic

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Larry go to work after the start of World War II?

2. Where do the Morgans live now?

3. What does Charity say is all she needed to make her death the way she has envisioned it?

4. What are Larry and Sally doing as the chapter begins?

5. What job does Larry have?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 431 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample