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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Brian attempt to do with Beverly?
(a) Go for a walk.
(b) Make love to her.
(c) Dance with her.
(d) Argue with her.
2. Which of the following characters remains in denial the longest?
(a) Mark.
(b) Joe.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Beverly.
3. Which of the following describes how Mark feels about Beverly's behavior?
(a) He doesn't know what to make of it.
(b) He is disgusted by it.
(c) He finds it intriguing.
(d) He enjoys it.
4. Why does Maggie agree to enter the cottage for the first time?
(a) She needs to go inside with him.
(b) She has accepted Joe's imminent death.
(c) She knows that it is what Joe wants.
(d) She wants to see her son.
5. What does Beverly try to interject into Brian's grieving process?
(a) Surprise and patience.
(b) Humor and drama.
(c) Love and affection.
(d) Denial and release.
6. What does the letter reading incident lead Agnes to realize?
(a) Her mother is going to die.
(b) She can no longer care for her mother.
(c) Her mother has declined into senility.
(d) She needs to put Felicity back in the hospital.
7. How does Mark feel about the thought of Brian leaving?
(a) He doesn't believe it will happen.
(b) He realizes it will be a relief.
(c) He cannot truly understand it.
(d) He cannot bear it.
8. Who remains faithful to Brian until the end?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Steve.
(c) Mark.
(d) Beverly.
9. What does Maggie realize Joe needs from her?
(a) Support.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Anger.
(d) Love.
10. How does Maggie feel that prevents her from going into the cottage?
(a) Anger.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Fear.
11. What does the interviewer tell Agnes Felicity is enduring?
(a) Medical science's worst.
(b) Senility which keeps her in the dark.
(c) Physical and mental anguish.
(d) A false sense of security and understanding.
12. How does Agnes respond to the interviewers suggest about what may need to happen to Felicity?
(a) Agnes says that that is not what Felicity wants.
(b) Agnes refuses the interviewers idea.
(c) Agnes tells the interviewer that he is wrong.
(d) Agnes begins to softly cry.
13. What did Felicity refuse to do according to Agnes?
(a) Acknowledge Claire's death.
(b) Move out of her home.
(c) Have a funeral for her daughter.
(d) Talk about Claire with anyone.
14. Who does the interviewer believe is keeping Felicity alive?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Claire.
(c) Felicity.
(d) Hospital.
15. It could be said that Joe and Felicity are further along in the acceptance of their disease than which of the following characters?
(a) Their families.
(b) Brian.
(c) Beverly and Mark.
(d) Agnes.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do all of the pieces of Beverly's jewelry represent?
2. What does Felicity ask Agnes to do while she drinks her tea?
3. What did Agnes decide to do to try and help Felicity?
4. What does Brian resolve to do?
5. Which of the following was not one of the descriptions that Agnes used to describe Claire after her mother took over her husband's job?
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