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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jen do when she needs to scream in order to deal with the idea of Wallace's brain tumor?
(a) Swims.
(b) Turns on the radio.
(c) Runs to the cliff.
(d) Breaks things.

2. What does Jen say when she is invited over to a party over the phone?
(a) She has plans.
(b) She is sick.
(c) She has to tend to Wallace.
(d) She hates people.

3. What does Randy present as a gift to Wallace when he comes back into the room to see him?
(a) A helmet.
(b) A large pitcher of beer.
(c) The stuffed heron.
(d) A certificate.

4. What does the doctor recommend two weeks of in order to make sure the tumor doesn't come back?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Drug therapy.

5. What does a woman that Jen knows carry around with her in case she is ever in a situation where she found out she could not recover?
(a) Crack.
(b) Cyanide.
(c) LSD.
(d) Poison mushroom.

6. Jen cleans the two houses, but then decides that the people are ___________ and that she will need to find another way to make money.
(a) Filthy.
(b) Too rich.
(c) Boring.
(d) Obnoxious.

7. What does Jen's uncle Colin tell her not to do when he writes her a letter, sending his best wishes?
(a) Be paranoid.
(b) Be hopeful.
(c) Be useful.
(d) Be happy.

8. Megan has a _________ that most adults lack, it seems, causing her to be a good person for Jen to talk to.
(a) New perspective.
(b) Blunt honesty.
(c) Innocent quality.
(d) Life experience.

9. Wallace warns his kids when they get back that now would be a very bad time to do _______, and they promise not to do it.
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Nothing.
(c) LSD.
(d) The will.

10. How much money has Jen been living on each week, which leads her to believe that she needs to earn more?
(a) $20.
(b) $10.
(c) $100.
(d) $40.

11. Megan's great-aunt used to have a __________ named Damocles, before her husband made her give it up.
(a) Fish.
(b) Dog.
(c) Horse.
(d) Cat.

12. What was the name of the man that Jen slept with a few times when Kathleen was getting a divorce?
(a) Tom.
(b) Eric.
(c) Kent.
(d) Jim.

13. When Wallace shows up at Jen's, where does he ask her to take him so that he can find out some news?
(a) A pharmacy.
(b) Grocery store.
(c) Bar.
(d) Hospital.

14. What is the date on which Jen realizes that enough time has gone by since she stopped cleaning houses?
(a) October 14.
(b) October 1.
(c) October 12.
(d) September 1.

15. Where is the hospital that Megan and Jen are going to in order to see Wallace on his discharge day?
(a) Santa Monica.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) San Diego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jen chasing in the dream that makes her wake up screaming during this section of the story?

2. What is on the face of the creature that is following Jen in her scary dream?

3. What does Jen calculate when she gets up from her night's rest about a month after Wallace's surgery?

4. Who decides to come with Jen to the hospital on the day that Wallace is going to be discharged?

5. Whose parents died of a double suicide ten years previously, which may explain a lot about this character?

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