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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. What does Jen calculate when she gets up from her night's rest about a month after Wallace's surgery?
(a) Her monthly expenses.
(b) Her years of life left.
(c) The number of hours until she can sleep again.
(d) The words she's written.

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

3. How does the family get through the time when they are waiting for the doctor to call them back?
(a) Look at pictures.
(b) Talk about the funeral arrangements.
(c) Make each other laugh.
(d) Play charades.

4. 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) Obnoxious.
(b) Filthy.
(c) Boring.
(d) Too rich.

5. What does Kathleen tell Jen that she has to do that night instead of meeting with her?
(a) Go to the ER.
(b) Read a book.
(c) Wash her hair.
(d) Go on a date.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jen confesses to Kathleen that she is doing ________ yoga in order to cope in her life right now.

3. What does Randy present as a gift to Wallace when he comes back into the room to see him?

4. What does Jen decide to do when she is sitting on the cliff and watching the sun set in the distance?

5. What is the date on which Jen realizes that enough time has gone by since she stopped cleaning houses?

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

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

4. What does Colin say in a letter that he sends to Jen during the time of Wallace's recuperation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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