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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charity have trouble cooking for the group?

2. What event mars the onset of the plan?

3. Who walks up to meet the family as the picnic is ending?

4. What is Hallie's profession?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is this chapter the climax of the book?

2. How does the author use the Adam and Eve metaphor to advance the plot?

3. Why does Larry consider their year in Italy to be one of the best and most youthful for Sally and him?

4. How has the necessity for rescue changed between the two couples?

5. How does the author extend the Adam and Eve metaphor in this chapter?

6. Why does Sid not want to go on the family picnic?

7. What happens to the relationship between the Morgans and the Langs during World War II?

8. How do the Charity, Sid and Sally remain in character when facing Charity's imminent death?

9. Although Larry and Sally never had the advantages or financial ease that Sid and Charity did, they seem to have a better marriage. Explain how the author reveals this.

10. How do Sally's memories provide a different perspective about Charity for Hallie?

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