Hard Laughter Test | Final Test - Medium

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Hard Laughter Test | Final Test - Medium

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Hard Laughter Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jen begins to write about abuse she suffered at _________ hands when she returns to her typewriter.
(a) Wallace's.
(b) Ben's.
(c) Eric's.
(d) Randy's.

2. The family had been hoping for a _________ or dying prognosis, not the intermediary diagnosis that Wallace receives.
(a) Done.
(b) Easy.
(c) Over.
(d) Cured.

3. Wallace and Jen talk about whether they think ________ has anything to do with the problems that Wallace has had.
(a) Genetics.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) The family.
(d) Karma.

4. Jen actually worries that the other people at the party will ask her if her father is _____________.
(a) Dying.
(b) Sick.
(c) A good man.
(d) Alive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Kathleen and Jen decide to meet later that day in order to talk about Jen's issues?

2. The woman gets rid of the item from #131 when she realized she would nor recover from ____________ the child who found it.

3. How much money has Jen been living on each week, which leads her to believe that she needs to earn more?

4. Kathleen and Jen discuss the various effects that _________ can have on a person's brain, even destroying it.

5. Where does Jen find a lump on her body, causing her to worry that it might be cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jen think about the idea of scars on a person's face?

2. Why doesn't Randy go to see his dad when his dad is finally being released from the hospital?

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

4. What is the embarrassing memory that Jen and Wallace share as they are talking about tumors and karma?

5. Why is Jen hurt by Kathleen's actions, even though Kathleen still doesn't want to change her plans for the night?

6. What do Kathleen and Jen decide to do when Wallace is going to lay down for a nap for a while?

7. What is the most noticeable difference in Wallace when he is home and healing from his surgery?

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

9. What does the doctor tells Wallace about the tumor mass that they removed from his brain during the previous surgery?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 649 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Hard Laughter Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Hard Laughter from BookRags. (c)2026 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.