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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic George asks Ellen about that night she comes down to get milk and finds her parents in the dining room?
(a) The closing of a college campus
(b) The razing of a park
(c) The installation of a new water system
(d) The building of a new apartment complex

2. What does Ellen say about her mother's loss of vision?
(a) That she thinks her mother is just too tired to go on
(b) That it's a product of too much time spent reading
(c) That it's the result of the cancer
(d) That it's the result of medication

3. Where is Ellen when Kate dies?
(a) In bed
(b) In the kitchen
(c) Looking for her father
(d) In the room with her mother

4. What is Ellen's answer when the prosecutor asks if she killed Kate?
(a) She says she didn't but that she knows who did
(b) She says that she didn't but believes her father did
(c) She says she couldn't do it
(d) She says she did it

5. What does Ellen buy hoping her mother will continue to read?
(a) An audio book
(b) A different book
(c) A magnifying glass
(d) A large-print edition

6. What is the group that offers to pay for Ellen's legal expenses?
(a) The Death with Dignity organization
(b) The Humane Euthansia group
(c) The Doctors for Dignified Endings
(d) The Center for the Right to Die

7. What month does Ellen say is suitable for dying?
(a) February
(b) May
(c) January
(d) December

8. Where is the psychic from who calls Ellen with a message that her mother forgives her?
(a) Minnesota
(b) Maryland
(c) Missouri
(d) Mississippi

9. What is on the cover of the book of devotionals that the man in the grocery store gives Ellen after her arrest?
(a) A rose
(b) A cross
(c) An angel
(d) A profile of a child

10. Where does Ellen spend the night after Kate asks Ellen to help end her suffering?
(a) On the bed beside her mother
(b) In jail
(c) In a chair in the den
(d) In her room

11. What does Ellen give her mother for Christmas?
(a) A bracelet
(b) A book
(c) A scarf
(d) Walkie-talkies

12. What does Ellen say her mother had nightmares about?
(a) Dying
(b) Snakes and spiders
(c) Babies and thunderstorms
(d) Being buried alive

13. What is George feeding Kate when Ellen stops by the den that night?
(a) Rice pudding
(b) Spoonfuls of dissolved morphine
(c) A scrambled egg
(d) Tomato soup

14. What color is the suit Ellen buys to wear to the funeral?
(a) Navy
(b) Red
(c) Maroon
(d) Black

15. Why does Jeff enter the back door of Mrs. Forburg's house?
(a) He's trying to make Ellen laugh
(b) The carport is nearer the back door and it's raining
(c) Police are watching the front
(d) To avoid the reporter and photographer

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the sampler on the wall of the Gulden dining room?

2. What kind of sandwich does Ellen eat after the trees are decorated?

3. What is on the shirt Kate wears to the Christmas tree lighting ceremony?

4. What is the pattern on the curtains in the living room?

5. What does Kate say when George says Easter will be early this year?

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