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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the interviewer change the subject to?
(a) Claire.
(b) Life.
(c) Felicity.
(d) Death.

2. What does Brian do with the jacket?
(a) Throws it at Beverly and Mark.
(b) Throws it in the wash.
(c) Throws it in the trash.
(d) Throws it on a chair.

3. What does Brian say that no one expects?
(a) To die from disease.
(b) Death to happen to them.
(c) To know someone who will die.
(d) To have to explain death to their family.

4. What does the reality of terminal illness force people to do?
(a) Face death as a fact of life.
(b) Reevaluate life priorities.
(c) Support each other more.
(d) Fight harder to avoid death.

5. Why does Maggie agree to enter the cottage for the first time?
(a) She wants to see her son.
(b) She knows that it is what Joe wants.
(c) She has accepted Joe's imminent death.
(d) She needs to go inside with him.

6. What happened to Claire?
(a) She committed suicide.
(b) She left the country.
(c) She was in jail.
(d) She was killed in an accident.

7. What happened to Claire one day when she and Felicity were arguing?
(a) Felicity hit Claire.
(b) Claire hit her mother.
(c) Claire left.
(d) Felicity kicked her out.

8. What does Felicity's mental state keep her in?
(a) A fantasyland where she is not ill.
(b) A calm and peacful existance.
(c) A perpetual state of memory.
(d) A realization of her disease.

9. What does Brian tell the interviewer about people?
(a) They don't appreciate honesty.
(b) They don't understand death.
(c) They don't know how to say goodbye.
(d) They don't want to let go.

10. What is a part of the dying process for each of the patients?
(a) Explaining their illness.
(b) Reviewing their lives.
(c) Finding their spirituality.
(d) Getting their affairs in order.

11. What does Mark do when Beverly follows Brian?
(a) He walks out of the cottage to clear his head.
(b) He drinks champagne straight from the bottle.
(c) He goes into the kitchen to clean his jacket.
(d) He cleans up the mess that Beverly made.

12. Who remains faithful to Brian until the end?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Beverly.
(c) Steve.
(d) Mark.

13. What does Beverly spill on Mark's jacket?
(a) Wine.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Soda.

14. What do Joe and Maggie do while they sit outside of the cottage?
(a) Talk about what it will be like when Joe is gone.
(b) Argue about what to tell their son.
(c) Reminisce about their life.
(d) Talk about why she won't go in the cottage.

15. What seems to be the most important theme of the play?
(a) There is always hope even in death.
(b) There are many stages of grief.
(c) Life always ends in death.
(d) Really live while you're alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brian feel about the argument over the spill on the jacket?

2. How does Beverly react to Mark's description about the dying process?

3. What does Joe say about death?

4. What do all of the characters seem to say about life?

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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