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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. Schwartz explains that it is important for relationships to be ______.
2. What type of feelings will not go away because one is sick?
3. What are the hardest opposites to handle, as described in Chapter 4?
4. Before being diagnosed with ALS, what other disease kept Schwartz from physical activity?
5. Schwartz describes the action of hiding grief as _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. Using text from Chapter 4, discuss how Morrie explains contradictory feelings.
2. In Chapter 2, Schwartz describes psychological vulnerability. Explain this concept.
3. In Chapter 3, Morrie discusses how he was able to overcome his mother's death. Explain the special circumstances that help Morrie cope.
4. In Chapter 3, Morrie explains that the act of crying and the emotions that go along with it have helped him to grieve. Discuss his personal experience with this concept.
5. In Chapter 5, Morrie stresses the importance of healing past relationships. Describe which past relationships should be focused on and why.
6. In Chapter 2, Schwartz discusses the concept of frustration. Explain the importance of frustration as it relates to the way one handles a disease.
7. In Chapter 1, Schwartz's first four steps of living with physical limitations and life-threatening diseases are explained. Describe these first four steps.
8. Using text from Chapter 3, discuss Morrie's thoughts on grief as a natural emotion.
9. In Chapter 5, Morrie discusses the past. Explain why Morrie places such a major emphasize on the past, as it relates to one experiencing declining health.
10. In Chapter 4, the concept of acceptance is developed. Explain the importance of acceptance, as described by Morrie.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the major topics that Schwartz focuses on throughout the book is his personal feelings towards his loss of independence. Describe how Schwartz relates this loss of independence as being so difficult because of the culture we live in.
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 9, Schwartz discusses the importance of having control. What does he stress that one has control over? How is one supposed to obtain this control? Use details from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Morrie Schwartz has a definite target audience for his book "Morrie: In His Own Words." Describe Schwartz's intended audience. Give specific examples from the book to support your answer.
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