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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. About what is Jenny curious?
(a) Who is ahead of Oliver in his class.
(b) Why he is near the bottom of his class.
(c) Why he isn't either near the top or bottom instead of in the boring middle.
(d) How he managed to be number one when he was working and studying.

6. Who is called back to the clinic?
(a) Oliver.
(b) Neither of them.
(c) Jenny.
(d) Both of them.

7. What is Jenny's problem?
(a) Her eggs do not descend.
(b) She is trying too hard.
(c) She has endometriosus.
(d) She has an incurable type of leukemia.

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

9. What type of apartment do Jenny and Oliver rent?
(a) A Hippie Pad.
(b) Run-down.
(c) Very expensive.
(d) Tiny.

10. Where are Jenny and Oliver in July?
(a) Dennis Port.
(b) New York City.
(c) Boston.
(d) Rhode Island.

11. What is the first thing Oliver does when he leaves the room at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Asks the nurse for more pain medication for Jenny.
(b) Calls his boss.
(c) Tells Phil that Jenny is asleep and to be quiet when he goes in to the room.
(d) Tells Phil that Jenny has died.

12. What is the result of his ranking?
(a) He gets some offers of jobs, but not his first choices.
(b) He must figure out where he is by talking to others in his class.
(c) He gets the dregs of the offerings for a job.
(d) He is offered many good jobs.

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

14. 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) Washing dishes.
(d) Watching a movie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phil do when he learns of Jenny's illness?

2. What does Jenny say in jest that they would name a boy child?

3. What is Oliver's standing in law school and what does it mean?

4. What does Oliver turn down as a result of Jenny's illness?

5. What happens while Oliver is holding Jenny?

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