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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Back to Work and Monday.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the funerals in the town, people will ___________ whatever they think is appropriate for sending off a person they love or respect.
(a) Write.
(b) Wear.
(c) Sing.
(d) Chant.

2. Who decides that he is too busy to go to the hospital as he is getting ready to go to college?
(a) Ben.
(b) Randy.
(c) Eric.
(d) Tom.

3. How old is Jen's friend Megan, the one who sometimes stays with her at the cabin?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 13.

4. Whose parents died of a double suicide ten years previously, which may explain a lot about this character?
(a) Eric's.
(b) Kathleen's.
(c) Wallace's.
(d) Sarah's.

5. What is the one subject that Eric doesn't want to talk about and that he becomes defensive about when Jen tries?
(a) The future.
(b) Books.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wallace decide to do in order to get rid of the brain tumor, though he is afraid of his choice?

2. What is Wallace baking for the first time when Jen arrives at the house for the dinner?

3. What is the name that Randy gives to the dead animal he brings back home with him during the story?

4. Jen thinks that _______ are the best gatherings she knows about, along with getting together at the bedside of a dying person.

5. What does Jen learn about a week before Eric says that he will be leaving her?

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