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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 is the person who decides to drive Wallace to his radiation therapy for the next few weeks?
(a) Ben.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Randy.
(d) Jen.

2. What does the doctor say that the lump on her body is, and Jen pretends she knew this along?
(a) A benign mass.
(b) An infected lymph node.
(c) A tumor.
(d) A pimple.

3. Where do Kathleen and Jen decide to meet later that day in order to talk about Jen's issues?
(a) Coffeeshop.
(b) Wallace's house.
(c) Bar.
(d) A library.

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

5. What do Kathleen and Jen decide to go get when Wallace goes back to sleep after a visit with them?
(a) A bag of chips.
(b) Wine.
(c) Beer.
(d) Ice cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most impressive part of Wallace, according to the siblings, when he first arrives and they take a look at him?

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

3. Jen begins to write about abuse she suffered at _________ hands when she returns to her typewriter.

4. Jen is reminded of the way people avoid looking at those with ____________ when she sees how people look at Wallace.

5. What does Randy suggest that Jen ride in when she returns from the hospital visit with Wallace?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jen gets a phone call later in the day, inviting her to come to a party with others?

2. What does Jen decide that she needs to do in order to have more money in her life?

3. What happens on the day that Wallace is discharged from the hospital after his surgery?

4. What does Jen do when she turns on the radio, trying to work out a new feeling she has about the tumor Wallace has?

5. What does Jen think about the other people in the town that are very paranoid about their lives and their surroundings?

6. One morning, about a month after Wallace's surgery, what is the first thought in Jen's mind when she wakes up?

7. What begins to happen to Wallace as he starts his weekly radiation treatments, to which Jen drives him?

8. What is the worry that Jen has about being at parties, and what a person might ask her when she is there?

9. What are the criteria that Jen has in terms of deciding whether or not to take a job that she is offered by another?

10. What is the exercise called where Jen lies in bed for hours on end each day, according to her conversation with Kathleen?

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