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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jenny kick Oliver out of her hospital room?

2. Where do Oliver and Jenny decide they want to live?

3. What is Jenny's problem?

4. How does Oliver respond?

5. How could the firm be described where Oliver is to work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Oliver do after Jenny leaves the apartment when he threw the phone across the room?

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

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

6. Where is Jenny working and how does she feel about that?

7. What does Oliver do after Jenny dies?

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

9. What does Oliver decide shortly after they move to New York and how does Jenny feel about it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oliver accepts his father's love for the first time, seeing it for what it is in his father's awkward way of showing love. It is a happy ending despite the devastation that marks Jenny's death.

1. Do you think Oliver's joy at finally knowing his father loves him is stronger than his grief at Jenny's death?

2. Do you think someone can experience joy and sorrow at almost the exact same moment? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The reader watches the two Olivers interact and has to wonder if this sense of competition is mostly a product of Oliver's imagination rather than a true competition that his father has initiated.

1. Do you think Oliver is imagining his father's motivations and feelings? Why or why not?

2. All people attribute feelings and thoughts to other people without knowing whether they are true. Explain a situation in which you, or someone you know, assumed a person thought one way and it was not true.

3. How would you feel if someone thought you believed something, or felt something that you didn't? How would you try to change their opinion?

Essay Topic 3

From rich to poor. Oliver's need for financial aid is a new event in his life and is not received well by the dean of the school who is aware of Oliver's family background.

1. Do you think Oliver and his father are being childish? Why or why not?

2. What do you think are some of the ways in which Oliver's life is different due to his financial situation?

3. If you were in Oliver's position would you think marrying Jenny was worth being poor? Why or why not?

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