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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 Ben suspect immediately about the car accident in 1985?
(a) Mimi was driving.
(b) Theo was driving.
(c) Theo was drinking.
(d) Misty was driving.

2. What does Alice realize when she and Shenkman and Waldo get home?
(a) Theo has died.
(b) Sarah has died.
(c) Reginald has died.
(d) Ben Wilf is moving out.

3. Who will Waldo look for even after he knows they are long gone?
(a) His parents.
(b) His friends.
(c) Ben.
(d) Mimi.

4. What does Theo know he is never going to do?
(a) Die young.
(b) Eat healthily.
(c) Go bankrupt.
(d) Get married or have children.

5. Who is Ben's favorite poet?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Stevenson.
(d) Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ben always envied Mimi for?

2. Why does Shenkman want to sell the house in 2020?

3. Why does Theo overeat sometimes?

4. Who does Theo keep in touch with more than almost anyone?

5. What does Sarah feel after the car accident?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the legend around the tree in the Wilf's front yard?

2. When does Ben get the angriest he has been in his life?

3. What does Mimi think about Ben's temperament?

4. When does Ben realize Mimi is developing dementia?

5. What does Shenkman do when he first meets Theo?

6. How does Mimi die?

7. What does Waldo say is watching over him and Mimi?

8. What does Ben realize fairly soon after the car accident in 1985?

9. What does Waldo think he sees when Mimi dies?

10. What kind of relationship do Mimi and Ben have in their marriage?

(see the answer keys)

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