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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Larry doing at the beginning of Part 3: Chapter 4?
(a) Looking for Sid
(b) Swimming
(c) Reading
(d) Grilling hamburgers

2. What does Charity say is all she needed to make her death the way she has envisioned it?
(a) To see her grandchildren
(b) To see another Christmas
(c) To see her children
(d) To see Larry and Sally

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

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

5. Where do Larry and Sally go in Part 2: Chapter 5?
(a) Their old apartment in Cambridge
(b) Sid and Charity's house
(c) Their old apartment in Madison
(d) Lang and Moe's house

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

7. What creature does Larry rescue?
(a) A mouse
(b) A deer
(c) A cat
(d) A dog

8. What brand of car do Sid and Larry pack for a picnic?
(a) BMW
(b) Mercedes
(c) Marmon
(d) Chevrolet

9. Where do Sally and Larry have to move for Larry's new job?
(a) Boston
(b) Burlington
(c) Philadelphia
(d) New York

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

11. What job does Larry have?
(a) Editor
(b) Writer
(c) Photographer
(d) Poet

12. What has Charity selected for Sid?
(a) A party menu
(b) A new suit
(c) Marriage prospects
(d) New books

13. What is growing in the wooded areas along the way?
(a) Blueberry bushes
(b) Mushrooms
(c) Evergreen trees
(d) Raspberry bushes

14. Why is Charity impatient with Sid?
(a) He has tracked mud into the house
(b) He will not face facts
(c) He did not mail the insurance payment
(d) He has not made dinner reservations

15. Where does Sally spend the night?
(a) At the Langs' home
(b) At the hospital with Charity
(c) At the cabin
(d) At a bed and breakfast

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What city does Sally say she and Larry were young in?

3. Larry thinks about making order out of __________________________.

4. What do Sid and Charity agree on?

5. What year is it in the story as Part2: Chapter 1 begins?

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