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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 did Shenkman's father do for a living?
(a) Worked at a law office.
(b) Worked at a Budweiser plant in Newark.
(c) Had his own accountancy firm.
(d) Worked as a janitor in Manhattan.

2. Who does Ben say they should call when they find Mimi dead?
(a) Mimi's brother.
(b) Mimi's mother.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) 911.

3. Why does Shenkman hit Theo?
(a) He has always hated Theo.
(b) Theo looks like he wants a fight.
(c) He thinks Theo kidnapped Waldo.
(d) Theo threatens him.

4. What does Shenkman discover when he wakes up in Part III?
(a) Ben has died.
(b) Mimi has died.
(c) Alice is gone.
(d) Waldo is gone.

5. What does Shenkman do many days that Waldo always feels awkward about?
(a) Faints.
(b) Exercises.
(c) Rakes leaves.
(d) Cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mimi find herself repeating in her mind immediately after the car accident?

2. What does Alice tell Shenkman in the car looking for Waldo in Part IV?

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

4. What does Sarah think the man she is having an affair with is doing to her?

5. When was the last time Waldo cried?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mimi die?

2. When does Ben realize Mimi is developing dementia?

3. Why do Sarah and Ben decide not to wake Ben when they find out Mimi is missing?

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

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

6. What does Alice do after Waldo runs away?

7. What does the man Sarah is having an affair threaten her with?

8. What does Ben remember about how Sarah was in high school?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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