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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 happens when Richard asks to try some dessert on Christmas Eve?
(a) Richard has an allergic reaction.
(b) Karina refuses.
(c) Grace drops it.
(d) Richard chokes.

2. After finding Richard writing to his father, Karina thinks Richard is what?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Pathetic.
(c) Ungrateful.
(d) Humiliated.

3. When Richard can be heard coughing during Karina's piano lesson, she briefly imagines doing what?
(a) Suffocating Richard.
(b) Refusing to feed Richard.
(c) Finding another home for Richard.
(d) Giving Richard the wrong medicine.

4. How much does Richard weigh following Karina's trip to New Orleans?
(a) 110 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 120 pounds.
(d) 90 pounds.

5. What does Grace have to absorb all at once?
(a) Her failing grades.
(b) Karina's transformation.
(c) Her studies.
(d) Richard's transformation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many letters does Richard write his father?

2. What two emotions kept Richard from telling Grace about his ALS?

3. What jazz pianist does Karina see while in New Orleans?

4. What surprising news do Richard's brothers tell him after the funeral?

5. Following the Christmas holiday, Richard's voice has weakened so badly he can no longer use what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What situation causes Grace and Richard to grow closer together while Karina is in New Orleans?

2. What surprising information do Richard's brothers tell him at the funeral? What is the effect on Richard?

3. What offer does Elise make as Karina, Elise, and Grace take a morning walk? How does Grace help this plan?

4. Explain Richard's love for his daughter versus his love for the piano.

5. What is ironic about Karina's asking Richard if he wants anything in Chapter Twenty-eight?

6. What is makowiec, and what happens when Richard asks to sample some?

7. How does Richard's wheelchair impair his mobility, instead of facilitate it?

8. How has caring for Richard taken a toll on Karina after the addition of the BiPAP? Why?

9. How did moving to Boston impact Richard and Karina? What does Richard think about the move?

10. How does Grace learn of Richard's diagnosis?

(see the answer keys)

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