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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. Who calls Jen in the middle of the night, but Jen hangs up on this person in her disgust?
(a) Ben.
(b) Kathleen.
(c) Randy.
(d) Megan.

2. What is the sport that Eric and Jen were playing when they first met each other?
(a) Volleyball.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Tennis doubles.
(d) Soccer.

3. The Burn Outs are the old hippies in town who did way too many drugs when they were younger and now cannot stop ______________.
(a) Tripping.
(b) Crying.
(c) Moving.
(d) Laughing.

4. Since life is filled with insane situations, it seems that there is no reason to try to approach life as though these situations were always _____________.
(a) Normal.
(b) Finite.
(c) Solvable.
(d) True.

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. Eric and Jen have less of a romance and more of a friendship that is punctuated with ________, according to the book.

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

3. What does Jen think is happening with Eric when she wakes up in the night to find that he is not there anymore?

4. What do the people next door to Jen remind her of, as she describes them for the reader?

5. Randy points out that Wallace's looking great is like the ________________, and it's not fooling anyone.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Megan believe that Jen cleans houses for a living, as she explains when they are talking?

2. What does Sarah say is completely normal when the children walk into the hospital room?

3. What does Kathleen say about the relationship between Eric and Jen, according to the story?

4. What has happened to all of Jen's male friends, or so she remembers when she is driving away from the hospital?

5. Why was the ancient castle built in San Francisco, according to the story's details?

6. Why does Jen love to have Megan over to stay with her at her little home?

7. What happens every Tuesday night in Jen's life, according to the story?

8. What are the worries that Wallace has as he begins to undergo the process of removing the problem from his body?

9. How did Eric and Jen meet, according to the story that Jen tells in the book?

10. Why doesn't Eric like to talk about his feelings when Jen tries to get him to do so?

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