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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Charity planned?
(a) Tonight's dinner
(b) The lives of her husband, children and grandchildren
(c) Summer vacation
(d) Her own funeral

2. What is Charity's plan?
(a) To have the grandchildren for the summer
(b) To take French lessons
(c) To write a novel
(d) To go to the hospital to die while everyone else is at the picnic

3. Where do the Morgans live now?
(a) Trenton
(b) Pittsburgh
(c) Malvern
(d) Cambridge

4. Why do the nurses take Charity into the house?
(a) It is getting dark
(b) The sun is too hot
(c) She is overtired
(d) A storm is coming

5. Larry recalls a particular morning in which month?
(a) August
(b) December
(c) May
(d) September

6. What does Charity have trouble cooking for the group?
(a) Steak
(b) Chicken
(c) Fish
(d) Corn

7. What does Larry see from his balcony window?
(a) Shopkeepers setting out their wares
(b) Women doing laundry
(c) A procession of people and donkeys
(d) Children walking to school

8. Where are Sid and Charity when Larry and Sally arrive?
(a) Washing the cars
(b) Sitting on recliners
(c) Working in the garden
(d) Playing golf

9. What do Sid and Charity agree on?
(a) New investments
(b) Architectural drawings
(c) New dining room furniture
(d) Charity should not go on the picnic

10. What new experience does Larry have in Vermont?
(a) Going to church
(b) Recreation and leisure
(c) Learning French
(d) Coaching baseball

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

12. For what reason does Sally express regret?
(a) That she never learned to ski
(b) That they never had more children
(c) That she never had a professional job
(d) That she is a burden to Larry

13. Who took care of Sally when she was first diagnosed?
(a) Charity
(b) Hallie
(c) Lang
(d) Sid

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hallie feeling ashamed of herself?

2. What does Sally ask Larry to do?

3. What do the Langs and Morgans plan to do at the end of the summer?

4. How does Larry describe the foursome of the Langs and the Morgans?

5. Who has a birthday party at the beginning of Part 2: Chapter 2?

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