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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all of the pieces of Beverly's jewelry represent?
(a) Wishes or dreams.
(b) Special memories.
(c) Ex lovers.
(d) Major life events.

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

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

4. What is the first stage in the process of grieving?
(a) Anger.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Denial.
(d) Bargaining.

5. What does Mark's pain stem from?
(a) Understanding what is happening to Brian.
(b) Jealousy over Brian's feelings for Beverly.
(c) Watching the dying process daily.
(d) Realizing his salvation is dying.

6. What do the characters say about everything that matters?
(a) Everything that matters has an end.
(b) Everything that matters is kept in families.
(c) Everthing that matters goes by faster.
(d) Everything that matters build memories.

7. What does Beverly do for Brian?
(a) Clean.
(b) Cook.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing.

8. Which of the following characters remains in denial the longest?
(a) Mark.
(b) Joe.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Beverly.

9. What does the interviewer suggest is keeping Agnes alive?
(a) Lies.
(b) Her senility.
(c) The hospital.
(d) False hope.

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

11. How does Agnes respond to the interviewer after he proposes his ideas?
(a) She refuses to talk anymore.
(b) She takes her mother back to the hospital.
(c) She tells the interviewer she has a headache.
(d) She becomes angry.

12. Where does Brian go after falls?
(a) Into the kitchen.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To his bedroom.
(d) Out on the porch.

13. 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.

14. Which of the following characters is most logical about death?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Brian.
(c) Felicity.
(d) Joe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Felicity refuse to do according to Agnes?

2. How does Beverly seem to handle stress?

3. How does Agnes now describe Claire?

4. What does Beverly say that Mark's life is based on?

5. What does Brian do with the jacket?

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