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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is called back to the clinic?
(a) Oliver.
(b) Neither of them.
(c) Both of them.
(d) Jenny.
2. Who does Oliver tell about Jenny's illness?
(a) His mother.
(b) Phil.
(c) No one.
(d) Jenny's sister.
3. What does Oliver do the first time they come to the apartment?
(a) Carries Jenny over the threshold.
(b) Cries.
(c) Smashes the door with his fist in humiliation.
(d) Pours an expensive bottle of wine for them.
4. How does Oliver satisfy both of their curiosity?
(a) He learns who is ahead of him.
(b) He makes up names of people ahead of him.
(c) He learns he nudged out two women for the top position.
(d) He finds out that a computer glitch misplaced him in the ranking.
5. What does Oliver join?
(a) A homeless coalition.
(b) The Harvard Club of New York.
(c) A crew team of lawyers.
(d) The YMCA.
6. What does the taxi driver think is going on with Jenny?
(a) She is going to visit her ill father.
(b) She is about to have a baby.
(c) He isn't interested and makes no comments.
(d) She is having a nervous breakdown.
7. What is the result of his ranking?
(a) He must figure out where he is by talking to others in his class.
(b) He is offered many good jobs.
(c) He gets the dregs of the offerings for a job.
(d) He gets some offers of jobs, but not his first choices.
8. When Oliver encounters his father, what does he tell him?
(a) That Oliver wishes his father had not come there.
(b) Oliver does not encounter his father.
(c) Jenny has died.
(d) That he will pay the money back soon.
9. Who does Oliver see coming into the lobby as he is leaving?
(a) Oliver's father.
(b) A priest to see Jenny.
(c) Jenny's sister.
(d) Oliver's mother.
10. What is Oliver's ranking at graduation?
(a) Near the bottom.
(b) Third.
(c) In the middle.
(d) It's irrelevant; they don't do a final ranking.
11. What is Jenny doing when she suddenly says she has to go to the hospital?
(a) Talking to Phil on the phone.
(b) Playing the piano.
(c) Watching a movie.
(d) Washing dishes.
12. What does Jenny insist on continuing?
(a) Her job as a teacher.
(b) Helping Oliver research his cases.
(c) Her volunteer work at the public library.
(d) The housework and cooking.
13. What is part of the job hunting process?
(a) Trips and dinners out.
(b) Days of answering the phone non-stop.
(c) Boring interviews.
(d) Getting his father to make contacts for him.
14. What are Oliver's instructions to the doctor?
(a) To let her die quickly.
(b) To do anything to save her life.
(c) He wouldn't presume to give the doctors instructions.
(d) To do everything to make Jenny as comfortable as possible.
15. What explanation does Oliver give his boss about his situation at home?
(a) He tells him the complete truth and breaks down crying.
(b) None.
(c) He tells him that Jenny is having an affair.
(d) He tells him a partial truth.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Phil do when he learns of Jenny's illness?
2. What does Jenny want Oliver to do?
3. How much money does Oliver get from his father?
4. Where is their tiny apartment located?
5. About what is Jenny curious?
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