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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brian believe people are doing instead of living more authentic lives?
(a) Trying methods to prolong the inevitable.
(b) Moving through their lives in an automatic way.
(c) Praying to a God he does not believe exists.
(d) Denying the facts that are presented to them.

2. What does Maggie do when Steve jokes with her and tries to pull her in the cottage?
(a) She yells and cusses at him.
(b) She slaps him hard across the face.
(c) She slides to the cottage floor and sobs.
(d) She walks away from both Steve and Joe.

3. What causes Joe to be vigorous and in good humor?
(a) The interviewer is calming him.
(b) He has met a couple of friends at the other cottages.
(c) He has come to grips with his disease and fate.
(d) His wife and son are arriving soon.

4. Which of the following is the best description of what the opening setting could be mistake for?
(a) A vacation home on a beach.
(b) A high tech hospital.
(c) A country retreat in the woods.
(d) A three star restaurant.

5. Why was Joe released from the hospital?
(a) To keep others from catching his illness.
(b) To be able to keep track of his progress more carefully.
(c) Because there was nothing else they could do for him.
(d) To spend time with his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is staying with Felicity at the cottage?

2. What does Steve do to express how much he missed Joe?

3. What does the interviewer tell Joe about his feelings?

4. Which of the following is true about the interviewer?

5. What does Joe admit to the interviewer about Maggie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maggie agree to do after she realizes that their life together has gone by too fast?

2. What does Agnes do that demonstrates her anger with the interviewer?

3. Why do you think the interviewer is only heard and never seen?

4. How does Maggie feel about going into the cottage?

5. What warning does Beverly give to Mark before she leaves?

6. What does Beverly think that Mark's life is based on?

7. How did Agnes's plan work in regards to her mother?

8. What explanation for Beverly give for all of the pieces of jewelry she wears?

9. What does the interviewer tell Joe to try and reassure him about his feelings?

10. How does Felicity react to the interviewer?

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