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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Agnes decide to do to try and help Felicity?
(a) Get her some therapy to work through the problem.
(b) Admitted her to the hospital right away.
(c) Tell her mom about Claire's problems every day.
(d) Write letters to Felicity and pretend they were from Claire.

2. Which of the following characters seems to battle the process the most?
(a) Joe.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Felicity.
(d) Brian.

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

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

5. Why do you think Agnes is more open to the idea of her mother's death?
(a) Her mother is older.
(b) She is tired of having to be fake for her mother.
(c) She already lost her father.
(d) Her sister ran away.

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

7. Who does the interviewer believe is keeping Felicity alive?
(a) Claire.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Felicity.

8. Which of the following is not something that Agnes suffers from?
(a) Tension.
(b) Bouts of hysteria.
(c) Ongoing tiredness.
(d) Psychosomatic headaches.

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

10. What did Felicity refuse to do according to Agnes?
(a) Acknowledge Claire's death.
(b) Talk about Claire with anyone.
(c) Have a funeral for her daughter.
(d) Move out of her home.

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

12. How does Agnes feel about the ideas the interviewer has presented?
(a) She is appalled.
(b) She is surprised.
(c) She is ashamed.
(d) She is reflective.

13. How does Agnes now describe Claire?
(a) As Felicity's favorite daughter.
(b) As the one that got away.
(c) As the golden child.
(d) As the trouble maker in the family.

14. How long was Claire gone before Felicity and Agnes knew what happened to her?
(a) A week.
(b) A month.
(c) Five years.
(d) A year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beverly spill on Mark's jacket?

2. Why doesn't Agnes believe that what she is doing is wrong?

3. What did Agnes say about her relationship with Claire before their father died?

4. Who remains faithful to Brian until the end?

5. What does the interviewer tell Agnes may need to happen to Felicity?

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