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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Oliver get from his father?
(a) His father gives Oliver his entire inheritance.
(b) He does not get any money from his dad because he is estranged from him.
(c) He asks for 20,000, but gets only 15,000.
(d) $5,000.

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

3. Where do Oliver and Jenny decide they want to live?
(a) In the South.
(b) In San Francisco.
(c) On the East Coast.
(d) In Europe.

4. What happens while Oliver is holding Jenny?
(a) She goes to sleep.
(b) She dies.
(c) She tells him she thinks she is getting better.
(d) She whispers in his ear that she wants him to marry again.

5. What explanation does Oliver give his boss about his situation at home?
(a) None.
(b) He tells him the complete truth and breaks down crying.
(c) He tells him a partial truth.
(d) He tells him that Jenny is having an affair.

6. What does Oliver turn down as a result of Jenny's illness?
(a) Membership in a men's club.
(b) A case of his own that would take him out of town.
(c) Jenny's desire to adopt a baby.
(d) A partnership.

7. Why is Oliver leaving the hospital?
(a) He hates doctors and wants away from them because they could not save Jenny.
(b) He is headed home.
(c) He is going to a Catholic church down the street.
(d) He needs some fresh air.

8. What does Oliver's father assume about why Oliver needs money?
(a) He needs to rent a place for his mistress.
(b) He got some girl in trouble.
(c) He lost a bet at the world cup.
(d) His father is not in the story here.

9. How does Oliver satisfy both of their curiosity?
(a) He learns he nudged out two women for the top position.
(b) He finds out that a computer glitch misplaced him in the ranking.
(c) He makes up names of people ahead of him.
(d) He learns who is ahead of him.

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

11. After a short while, what does Oliver decide he would like?
(a) More vacation time.
(b) A child.
(c) A weekend home in the Poconos.
(d) A puppy.

12. What does Oliver do during that next year?
(a) Reconciles finally with his father.
(b) Works at a pizza place and goes to school.
(c) Works hard and edits and writes law articles.
(d) Joins the Harvard crew team.

13. How could the couple's social life be described?
(a) Slow, but consistent.
(b) Full of high society events.
(c) Full and vibrant.
(d) Practically non-existent.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jenny insist on continuing?

2. What is the first thing Oliver does when he leaves the room at the beginning of this chapter?

3. What does Oliver tell his father the reason is for needing the money?

4. Where does Oliver choose to work?

5. What does Oliver join?

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