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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 indicate is the only thing that anyone can be sure of?
(a) Illness.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Birth.

2. What is Brian's perspective on death?
(a) He believes people think life is supposed to last forever.
(b) He believes people believe in an after-life.
(c) He believes that God provides all of the answers about death.
(d) He believes people need to deny terminally ille people exist.

3. What does Joe want to do in regards to his feelings?
(a) Redesign them.
(b) Deny them.
(c) Vent them.
(d) Ignore them.

4. What topic does Joe try to change it to when Maggie continues with her lack of acceptance?
(a) The family dog who had died last year.
(b) The family buying a farm and living a rural life.
(c) The memories from the last family vacation.
(d) The happenings at Steve's school and Maggie's work.

5. What does Maggie refuse to do when she arrives at the cottage?
(a) She refuses to let Steve touch his father.
(b) She refuses to go in the cottage.
(c) She refuses to talk about Joe's illness.
(d) She refuses to talk to Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does Brian come to about his shaking?

2. What does Brian believe people are doing instead of living more authentic lives?

3. How does Felicity says that she and Claire communicate?

4. Which of the following best describes how Joe feels about talking to a voice when he is unable to see the person?

5. What does Brian believe that every person thinks, though it is not the reality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Beverly finishes her dance performance?

2. What changed Joe's opinion about Maggie and Steve visiting him?

3. How does Joe feel about his life as he sits reminiscing with his wife?

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

5. What happens that leads Agnes to finally recognize that her mother is senile?

6. What specifically about his illness has made Joe very angry?

7. What was Agnes's rationale for taking on the duty of writing the letters to her mother?

8. What happened to Claire?

9. How does Felicity feel about her treatment so far at the hospital and where does she sometimes think she is?

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

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