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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 comes to visit Jen in November, taking her out for coffee and then comes back to her cabin to make love?
(a) Kathleen.
(b) Eric.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Michael.

2. What happens on the day that Wallace is finally discharged from the hospital?
(a) Jen's cat dies.
(b) His car blows up.
(c) Sarah leaves him.
(d) Kathleen disappears.

3. Who is only slightly less paranoid than the local mental patients in the town where the story is located?
(a) Randy.
(b) Jen.
(c) Wallace.
(d) Ben.

4. Wallace finds out that the tumor is _____________ when he finally receives his diagnosis.
(a) Benign.
(b) Pre-cancerous.
(c) Non-specific.
(d) Cancerous.

5. What does Wallace decide to drink with the kids upon his arrival home?
(a) Juice.
(b) Wine.
(c) Beer.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jen use to hit her bed with when she is worried about her father and about the way he's ruined her night?

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

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

4. Wallace warns his kids when they get back that now would be a very bad time to do _______, and they promise not to do it.

5. Megan's great-aunt is happen to see the girls and begins to _____________ with them and they have a good time together.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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