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

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

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

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

5. What might be the only happy ending to this story?
(a) Phil having met a nurse who he eventually marries.
(b) Jenny getting to say goodbye to everyone who is important to her.
(c) Jenny being able to die quickly in little pain.
(d) Oliver finally realizing his father loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jenny want Oliver to do?

2. What does Oliver find difficult?

3. What is the result of his ranking?

4. After a short while, what does Oliver decide he would like?

5. How does Oliver acknowledge the gift of the money?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Oliver and Jenny do when she doesn't get pregnant?

3. What kind of place do Jenny and Oliver rent when they return to Cambridge?

4. What does Oliver do after Jenny dies?

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

6. What does Jenny insist on doing at home and what is the one compromise she allows?

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

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

9. What did the letter Oliver received in July say about his last year's studies?

10. What does Jenny tell Oliver and what does she request of him?

(see the answer keys)

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