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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 is the name of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's highly influential book?
(a) On Death and Dying.
(b) The Last Cattle Call.
(c) Death Comes for the Archbishop.
(d) O, Death, Be Mine.

2. Which famous author's daughter suddenly died at the age of 24?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Mark Twain.

3. Chapter 18 refers to which famous character as the ultimate retiree?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Romeo.

4. The following headline ran in what paper? "HER OUTSIDE PREOCCUPATION CAN LEAVE HIM ISOLATED AT TIME OF MORE LEISURE"
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The New York Times.

5. What is the name of the son in Death of a Salesman that Viorst uses as an example of the restricting roles some parents foist on their children?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Biff.
(c) Jeff.
(d) William.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Viorst's three sons?

2. According to Chapter 14, parents suffer from the one of the following in a similar fashion to children.

3. Viorst says, "Losing is the price we pay for __________."

4. According to Viorst, the different roles we assign ourselves keep life interesting and fluid, rather than _____________.

5. Simone de Beauvoir once said, "Old age is life's ___________."

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 17, what redefines us throughout our lives?

2. According to the book, when does the way we will handle aging begin?

3. Viorst suggests two necessary losses in Chapter 14. Name one of them.

4. What does Freud say about religious thoughts of an afterlife?

5. What is described as the ultimate separation in Chapter 18?

6. What can happen as a result of a mother's fear that her child's psyche is fragile? How can this affect the child?

7. Other than a parent, what other things impact who a child becomes?

8. Name the five stages of dying described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Briefly describe each stage.

9. How does baggage from childhood put pressure on a marriage?

10. How did Viorst's three friends approach death differently?

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