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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mark doing before he came to live with Brian?
(a) He was a male prostitute.
(b) He was living in a homeless shelter.
(c) He was a struggling writer.
(d) He was a nurse at the hospital.

2. How does Joe describe his life?
(a) With a great sense of peace.
(b) With a sense of futility.
(c) With a need to explain.
(d) With painful memories.

3. What happened after Felicity heard the news?
(a) She started treating Agnes in a mean way.
(b) She gave up her will to live.
(c) She started having hallucinations.
(d) She became angry at everyone else.

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

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

6. What does the interviewer tell Agnes Felicity is enduring?
(a) Senility which keeps her in the dark.
(b) Medical science's worst.
(c) A false sense of security and understanding.
(d) Physical and mental anguish.

7. How does Brian feel about the argument over the spill on the jacket?
(a) He finds it hysterical.
(b) He finds it disturbing.
(c) He doesn't know what to make of it.
(d) He finds it trivial.

8. Why does Maggie want to have all of the good and bad moments of her life with Joe back?
(a) Because she wants to redo them.
(b) Because she needs to find control.
(c) Because their relationship isn't finished.
(d) Because she doesn't want to let go.

9. What does the interviewer tell Agnes may need to happen to Felicity?
(a) She has caused Agnes enough pain.
(b) She needs more help than Agnes can give.
(c) She needs to let go of Claire.
(d) She may need to go back to the hospital.

10. What does Maggie feel about her life with Joe?
(a) It went by too fast.
(b) It was a total failure.
(c) It is not over.
(d) It was only made up of good moments.

11. What is Agnes doing when Felicity interrupts her and asks for tea?
(a) Writing down her thoughts and feelings.
(b) Reading a fake letter from Claire.
(c) Talking with Felicity's doctors.
(d) Talking with the interviewer.

12. How does her feeling change?
(a) She becomes more confused.
(b) She is overwhelmed.
(c) She becomes angry.
(d) She gets lost in sadness.

13. Why doesn't Agnes believe that what she is doing is wrong?
(a) Felicity's thinking is impaired.
(b) Felicity is dying anyway.
(c) She is making sure her mother gets the best care.
(d) She is helping to keep Felicity alive.

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

15. Where had Claire gone?
(a) California.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the interviewer suggest is keeping Agnes alive?

2. What adds anger to the mix of emotions?

3. Why does Maggie agree to enter the cottage for the first time?

4. What occurs to Maggie to make her change her mind about Joe's death?

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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