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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. Why, according to Jeff in his sixth replay, does he have a vasectomy?
(a) It was an accident.
(b) So Linda won't have to experience a miscarriage.
(c) He does not want more children.
(d) So he can have sex without fear of causing a pregnancy.

2. What peak overlooks Jeff's farm?
(a) Mount Shasta.
(b) Fisher Mountain.
(c) Ozark Mountains.
(d) Appalachian Peak.

3. What town do Jeff and Pam meet in for a quiet dinner, before his next scheduled death?
(a) Majorca.
(b) Queens.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Ann Arbor.

4. When does Stuart move out of his parents' house?
(a) When they die.
(b) After finishing college.
(c) At 18.
(d) When he gets married.

5. How does Pamela want to discuss the troubling topic she raises on her sailing trip with Jeff?
(a) By getting married that evening.
(b) By buying a ring soon.
(c) By putting an ad in the paper.
(d) By enrolling in the next semester of college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prize does Jeff win with his book, Harps upon the Willows?

2. When Pamela awakens early in Chapter 19, what year is it?

3. What imagery is featured in the art at the New York exhibit Jeff attends?

4. What troubling topic does Pamela bring up on her sailing trip with Jeff?

5. What is the "appeasement" Stuart performs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of reaction do Jeff and Pamela get from the press conference they hold after their published predictions come true?

2. How does Jeff entertain Pamela's kids when they come to visit his farm?

3. What is different about death for Jeff and Pamela after they have fallen in love in their first life together?

4. What concern does Pamela discuss with Jeff on their sailing trip?

5. What makes Jeff realize that his past lives are memories for him that never existed for the people in them?

6. How does Jeff use isolation to build a happy life with Linda?

7. How does Pamela find Jeff in Boston when she finally returns to her replay?

8. Describe Stuart's life until his first death in 1988.

9. After Jeff and Pamela fall in love, how do both use (or not use) foreknowledge in their careers? How does their love inspire them?

10. Jeff dies while in a good relationship with Linda then is replayed into a failed marriage with her. What has changed and what does Jeff do?

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