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

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

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

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

5. Where is Megan going to go when she has to go back to school in the fall?
(a) Portland.
(b) Eureka.
(c) Redding.
(d) Spokane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jen rereads a letter from __________ later that night as she gets drunk and feels sorry for herself.

2. Megan believes that it's __________ that Wallace should have ever had a brain tumor to begin with, in her opinion.

3. What was the name of the uncle who was once medically dead for three minutes, according to Jen's story to Randy?

4. Jen doesn't want her doctor to see her as a __________, even though it's likely she already does.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What does Jen's father begin to do as he begins to feel better after the surgery and is healing well?

7. What is the agreement that Jen makes with Megan before they go to see Megan's great aunt Honey?

8. What does Megan think about people like Wallace who get brain tumors for no apparent reason?

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

10. What does Jen tell Randy about their Uncle Colin when they are drinking and cleaning together?

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