2. How does the novel end?
(a) The reader is not sure because it ends abruptly.
(b) Kate fails the task she has been given.
(c) John divorces Kate.
(d) Kate completes her task.

3. Why does Kate think marriage is a bad idea?
(a) She does not love John.
(b) She thinks she will want a divorce.
(c) They don't know each other enough.
(d) They know each other too well.

4. How does Sam make John feel?
(a) Very successful.
(b) Very happy.
(c) Sad about his life.
(d) Sam makes John physically ill.

5. What does John assure his siblings of upon Lonnie's death?
(a) Lonnie is rotting in hell.
(b) Lonnie is not really dead.
(c) John will take care of all of them.
(d) That he is water-skiing in heaven.

6. What do the two characters have at the end of the chapter?
(a) A bout of the flu.
(b) Despair.
(c) Challenges.
(d) Hope.

7. What makes the couple go back to Louisiana?
(a) Sam calls Kate and begs her to come back.
(b) Kate wants to return home.
(c) John gets a call from Aunt Emily to bring Kate back.
(d) John is sick of Kate and wants to leave.

8. What effect does the talk with Aunt Emily have on John's life?
(a) It wakes him up.
(b) He wants to be a better man.
(c) None, he ignores her.
(d) He feels angry with himself.

9. Does John ever get a chance to stand up to Aunt Emily?
(a) Yes and he is disowned by her.
(b) No, he mostly accepts her will.
(c) No, because Kate begs him not to.
(d) Yes, he falls out of favor with her.

10. What is Kate scared of?
(a) Not having freedom.
(b) Going crazy.
(c) Fitting into society.
(d) Being alone.

11. What does John realize about his search for the meaning of his life?
(a) It has given him hope.
(b) It rejeuvenates him.
(c) The search has taken him away from his tidy and ingenious life in Gentiliy.
(d) He enjoys the search.

12. How does the family act at dinner?
(a) Happy.
(b) They try to act as if everything is normal.
(c) They seem very abnormal.
(d) They act panicked.

13. Who does John visit while in Chicago?
(a) A family member.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) Harold Graebner.
(d) An ex-girlfreind, Gretchen.

14. Does Kate think she can change?
(a) She is not sure.
(b) Kate never talks of changing or not changing.
(c) No, definitely not.
(d) Yes. She promised John.

15. Why has John given up his search?
(a) He finds his purpose.
(b) He grows tired of trying.
(c) John does not give up.
(d) He says it is because he is a member of his mother's family.