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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katie remember as she is sobbing?
(a) How much she loved her mother.
(b) A sermon she once heard from her grandfather.
(c) Her childhood home and her father.
(d) The death of her last dog.

2. What did Katie think about Matt as a prospective husband?
(a) He would be a wonderful and considerate husband.
(b) She was unsure.
(c) He would be hard to take at times.
(d) He would be your typical male.

3. What does Katie find uncomfortable about her life?
(a) The reality of perhaps being a single mother.
(b) The uncertainty.
(c) Not being completely open with her mother.
(d) The confusion.

4. What happens that Suzanne ends up in a hospital?
(a) She breaks her foot.
(b) She falls in the icy pond.
(c) She twists her ankle.
(d) She falls unconscious to the ground.

5. How does Katie know Matt is an outdoors man?
(a) He wears a waterproof jacket.
(b) He tells her.
(c) He is tanned.
(d) He wears jeans and and hiking boots.

6. What does Katie finally understand?
(a) Why God is both hated and loved.
(b) Why she can forgive Matt.
(c) Why she is crying.
(d) Part of the reason for the problems between her and Matt.

7. What had Matt sworn to Katie?
(a) That he was not interested in dating anyone else.
(b) That he was not married.
(c) That he intended to marry her.
(d) That he was in the middle of a divorce.

8. What does Matt tell Katie on the night of July 18?
(a) That he had a son and daughter.
(b) That he was leaving and would not be back.
(c) That he was going to Europe for a few weeks.
(d) That he was dying.

9. Who believes stars flow out of the sky like cream from a pitcher?
(a) Idealists.
(b) Romantics.
(c) No one.
(d) The French.

10. Who can Katie not talk to, though she needs to talk to someone?
(a) Matt.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Suzanne.

11. How many falling stars does Matt count one night?
(a) 44.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 16.

12. Where does Suzanne move?
(a) New Hope.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Martha's Vineyard.
(d) Provincetown.

13. About what do Suzanne and the painter talk?
(a) Mostly painting houses.
(b) Everything.
(c) Mostly sailing.
(d) Family.

14. What is Jean doing on the roof?
(a) Fixing the fireplace flashing.
(b) Looking through her telescope.
(c) Working on a television atenna.
(d) Replacing some broken shingles.

15. What does Katie's mother say about Matt?
(a) That he probably did not intend to hurt her.
(b) That he has good taste in women.
(c) That he is a cad.
(d) That he maybe needs to grieve longer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Suzanne describe her life as a doctor in Boston?

2. What is one thing Katie hides from her mother?

3. What does Katie have to acknowledge to herself?

4. What does Michael explain to Suzanne as she is recovering from her illness?

5. Who is Michael Bernstein?

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