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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Wedding in the Old Neighborhood?
(a) The new restaurant Pat and his father want to open
(b) A theme restaurant in Miami
(c) A curiosity shop in town
(d) An annual event to celebrate Italy

2. Beth learns that parents who lose children often
(a) Become more tightly bonded
(b) Blame the child
(c) Grow apart from one another
(d) Renew their vows

3. When was the idea for the restaurant born?
(a) After Vincent's birth
(b) Years prior in Italy
(c) After Jill's wedding in Cappadora's
(d) When Ben disappeared

4. Why does little Ben think you can never come back from the deep end of the ocean?
(a) Because you will want to stay there
(b) Because the water will wash away your footprints
(c) Because the ocean is too deep to swim in
(d) Because the sharks will eat you

5. Vincent's therapy has been arranged for by
(a) His mother
(b) His grandfather
(c) His father
(d) Candy

6. Beth learns that Candy Bliss is
(a) A Christian
(b) A gay woman
(c) A child at heart
(d) A closet clothes-horse

7. Why does Candy want to go to Minneapolis?
(a) She thinks Ben has been killed there
(b) There has been a sighting of Ben
(c) She needs a break from work
(d) She wants to see her family

8. Why does Ellen blame herself for Ben's disappearance?
(a) She wanted Beth to bring her kids along to the reunion
(b) She had said she would watch Ben while Ellen took care of business
(c) She is the one who pushed Beth to go to the reunion.
(d) She put Beth's room on her credit card, forcing Beth to go to the hotel desk

9. Vincent intercepts Kerry
(a) Running with scissors
(b) Carrying a container of ammonia
(c) Walking down the street alone
(d) Eating mud pies

10. Candy charges Vincent with
(a) Guarding her badge
(b) Wearing her badge forever
(c) Taking care of his mother
(d) Watching out for strangers

11. The support group that Beth attends consists of
(a) Grieving spouses
(b) Parents without partners
(c) Parents who have lost children
(d) Parents who have abandoned their children

12. What was Beth's near-miss with Bob Unger?
(a) Beth almost struck Bob with her car as he crossed the street
(b) Beth contemplated leaving Pat to build a relationship with Bob
(c) During a session of kissing when she was married and pregnant, she caught herself and stopped
(d) Bob wanted Beth to come to work for him at Three-Mile Island

13. Vincent pulls back from his mother because she
(a) Was not there when she was needed
(b) Has been so mean to him
(c) Smells unfamiliar
(d) Looks awful

14. What does Vincent seem to be most worried about?
(a) What might happen to Carrie
(b) Where his next meal will come from
(c) How long his dad will be at work
(d) How many bad guys there are

15. What kind of relationship does Beth have with Bick?
(a) She loves her brother dearly
(b) Bick does not necessarily like Beth
(c) She does not trust Bick
(d) Bick is only a distant relative

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellen promise to keep going when Beth leaves for home?

2. Vincent's reaction to the news about their move to Chicago causes him to

3. Ben learns about love and opera from

4. Pat Cappadora's parents are

5. How did the group leader, Penny, cope with her grief?

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