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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Oliver's instructions to the doctor?
(a) To let her die quickly.
(b) He wouldn't presume to give the doctors instructions.
(c) To do anything to save her life.
(d) To do everything to make Jenny as comfortable as possible.

2. With whom does the fertility problem rest?
(a) Both of them.
(b) There is no problem.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Jenny.

3. What is the invitation that Jenny and Oliver receive?
(a) Phil's wedding.
(b) Oliver Barrett, III's 60th birthday.
(c) Oliver's best friend's wedding.
(d) To Harvard Law Review party.

4. What does Jenny say may someday happen?
(a) Oliver and his father will reconcile.
(b) Oliver's father may die and Oliver will regret it.
(c) Jenny will divorce Oliver if he doesn't become nicer to his parents.
(d) Oliver will have a child that feels about him the way he feels about his father.

5. What does Oliver find difficult?
(a) Not calling his father.
(b) Keeping things normal for Jenny.
(c) Law.
(d) Going to work everyday.

6. What is Oliver's standing in law school and what does it mean?
(a) He is near the bottom, which means he must re-take two classes.
(b) He is solidly in the middle, which means he is not eligible for any scholarship money.
(c) He is third, which means he has a position on the Law Review.
(d) He is first, which means he can skip some unimportant classes in the Fall.

7. Where is their tiny apartment located?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Cambridge.

8. What does Oliver tell his father the reason is for needing the money?
(a) He doesn't tell him any reason.
(b) He tells him his car has broken down.
(c) He tells him he lost a bet at the races.
(d) He hasn't asked his father for money.

9. What does Jenny want Oliver to do?
(a) Talk to his father.
(b) Join the Peace Corps with her.
(c) Attend Harvard Sports events.
(d) Quit law school and start a job.

10. What does Oliver do about work?
(a) Tries to hide his personal life so he isn't fired.
(b) Works only half time.
(c) Tells his boss about Jenny and stops working.
(d) Quits his job.

11. What does Oliver do the first time they come to the apartment?
(a) Cries.
(b) Pours an expensive bottle of wine for them.
(c) Carries Jenny over the threshold.
(d) Smashes the door with his fist in humiliation.

12. What does Oliver take over?
(a) Nothing, he's too busy with work.
(b) Cleaning up after dinner.
(c) The laundry.
(d) Walking the dog.

13. What does Jenny try goading Oliver into doing?
(a) Getting so mad he divorces her.
(b) Refusing the invitation for him but letting her go.
(c) Calling and personally refusing the invitation.
(d) Accepting the invitation.

14. Why does Jenny kick Oliver out of her hospital room?
(a) Because he keeps crying and getting her upset.
(b) She wouldn't dream of kicking him out and missing one minute with him.
(c) To be able to talk to Phil alone.
(d) So her ex-boyfriend can visit and say goodbye.

15. How could the firm be described where Oliver is to work?
(a) Ambulance chasers.
(b) Very oriented towards money-making cases.
(c) An emphasis on corporate law.
(d) Prestigious and civil liberties-oriented.

Short Answer Questions

1. How soon does Jenny become pregnant after they move to New York?

2. What does the medical costs for Jenny's care foreshadow?

3. How might their spending be described?

4. What does Oliver's father assume about why Oliver needs money?

5. Who does Oliver see coming into the lobby as he is leaving?

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