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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Matt tell Nicky?
(a) That his mother has had a heart attack.
(b) That he is all Matt has now.
(c) That his mother is in the hospital.
(d) That his mother has gone to heaven.

2. What does Nicky love to do?
(a) Ride his rocking horse.
(b) Ride their great dane.
(c) Play under the house's front porch.
(d) Clean house with Suzanne.

3. What does Dr. Cotter tell Matt about Suzanne?
(a) She had died instantly.
(b) She was probably not aware she was about to have a major MI.
(c) She probably was aware she was feeling poorly.
(d) She could probably not have been saved even if she had had the MI in the hospital.

4. What does Matt say about whose fault the accident was?
(a) It was another driver who ran a light.
(b) It was not Suzanne's fault.
(c) It was Suzanne's fault as she was on the cell phone.
(d) It was a blow out of a tire.

5. What do Matt and Suzanne do one night when they are in Nicky's room after he had awoken for a while?
(a) Discuss taking a vacation with Nicky.
(b) Sing together to Nicky.
(c) Discuss his college choices.
(d) Dance.

6. What is Katie relieved about when she goes to a bar Matt patronizes?
(a) That Matt is there but not drinking.
(b) That Matt is not an all-day patron there.
(c) That the bartender says Matt comes it but seldom has a drink.
(d) That the bartender knows Matt and says he has not been in in weeks.

7. Where is Suzanne's office?
(a) She has no office as she is giving up her practice.
(b) Facing the beach.
(c) Downtown.
(d) In a separate building on the lot.

8. Of whom does Katie think?
(a) Her sister who had to abort a baby due to health reaons.
(b) Her grandparents.
(c) The Browns.
(d) The Jacksons.

9. Where do Matt and Suzanne go for two of their honeymoon weeks?
(a) Costa Rica.
(b) Australia.
(c) Europe.
(d) Hawaii.

10. What does Katie do for her friends Phil and Lynn?
(a) Gives them a referral to an editor.
(b) Helps them write a birth poem for their new baby.
(c) Buy them a dinner at a posh restaurant.
(d) Babysits to give them a night out.

11. What does Katie do when she tells Dr. Sassoon she is pregnant?
(a) Says she has made no decisions yet.
(b) Laughs happily.
(c) Is fairly quiet.
(d) Cries.

12. What is one thing Katie has learned from Suzanne's diary?
(a) The "ball" theory.
(b) To take one minute at a time.
(c) To be patient.
(d) To open her heart more.

13. What is one thing Suzanne says about Nicky when he goes for his check-up?
(a) He is ahead of his age group in development.
(b) He has one eye that wanders slightly.
(c) He can hold his head up.
(d) He needs to gain a couple pounds.

14. What delights Nicky that the three do later that day?
(a) Swimming in the kid's fountain at the park.
(b) Riding the carousel.
(c) Feeding the ducks at the park.
(d) Going down the big slide into the kiddie pond.

15. What does Matt say Suzanne was on her way to do?
(a) Pick up Nicky's birthday present.
(b) Drop Nicky off at a friend's house.
(c) Take Nicky to see his grandmother.
(d) Pick up Nicky's birthday cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she think of Matt while going to the island?

2. What does Katie think about doing?

3. What does Melanie tell Katie?

4. Why does Matt wish he had been in the jeep?

5. What does Suzanne call her marriage?

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