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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. Where does John suggest they go after swimming?
(a) To a movie.
(b) Back home to New Orleans.
(c) Out to dinner.
(d) They go to his mother's fishing camp.

2. Why does John lust after Sharon?
(a) She is very beautiful.
(b) She flirts with him all the time.
(c) He is a sex addict.
(d) Her normally lusts after women he hardly knows and cannot communicate with.

3. Why is the meeting going to be serious?
(a) John usually meets with this person on Fridays.
(b) John usually meets with this person on Sundays.
(c) John usually meets with this person on Wednesdays.
(d) John usually meets with this person on Tuesdays.

4. What becomes clearer about John's relationship to his mother?
(a) He does not have a mother.
(b) He is a "mama's boy."
(c) They hate each other.
(d) It is easygoing, but she does not understand him.

5. What does John declare to Sharon?
(a) He misses his Aunt Emily.
(b) His undying love for Sharon.
(c) That he likes Kate.
(d) He has issues with his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kate thinks about her therapist?

2. What does John understand about the plight of this group?

3. In Chapter 1, what is revealed as a central theme of the book?

4. What does John think about his mother's family?

5. What is John longing to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does John remind his mother of?

2. Where does John live?

3. What important decision does John make that turns out to be a good idea?

4. What does Sharon try to establish about the trip?

5. What does John begin to plan on his way back to the office?

6. Why is Lonnie fasting?

7. Does John have anything in common with his mother?

8. What occurs on the ride to the Gulf Coast?

9. Where does John ask Sharon to go with him?

10. Where do the two decide to go once at the Gulf Coast and why is John surprised when they arrive?

(see the answer keys)

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