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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. 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'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 and his father will reconcile.

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

3. Who does Oliver tell about Jenny's illness?
(a) Jenny's sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) Phil.
(d) No one.

4. What is part of the job hunting process?
(a) Trips and dinners out.
(b) Getting his father to make contacts for him.
(c) Days of answering the phone non-stop.
(d) Boring interviews.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is impressed with an article Oliver writes?

3. What might be the only happy ending to this story?

4. What does Oliver do about work?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oliver tell his father about his request?

2. Why does the doctor call Oliver into the office and what does he tell Oliver?

3. How difficult is it for Oliver to keep the truth from Jenny and his boss?

4. Why does Oliver go to see his father?

5. What does Oliver do after Jenny dies?

6. Who does Oliver tell about Jenny's illness and what does he do?

7. What does Oliver say and do when his father tells him he's sorry?

8. After graduation, where is Oliver ranked in his law class?

9. When Oliver checks on Jenny one night after dinner what does she tell him and what does he do?

10. What kind of law firm does Oliver take a job with and where is it located?

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