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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 confuses Jean about the outside world?
(a) How the seasons change.
(b) How little changes.
(c) How fast life moves.
(d) How much people age.

2. What does Jean wish he could write?
(a) His story.
(b) A biography.
(c) Fiction.
(d) A play.

3. What does Mithra Grandchamp represent to Jean?
(a) Missed opportunities.
(b) A life of regrets.
(c) The outside world.
(d) Hopeful future.

4. What kind of company did Jean work for before his stroke?
(a) A tabloid.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) An almanac.
(d) A magazine.

5. What word does Jean use to describe what he hears in the halls of the hospital?
(a) Cacauphonous.
(b) Miserable and deafeneing.
(c) An interesting orchestration.
(d) A dull roar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury did Jean get during his visit outside of the hospital?

2. How much does the winning horse win by when Jean is at the race track?

3. How does the woman who Jean takes on a trip with him ask him to treat her in her note?

4. What is the name of the person Jean dictates his book to?

5. How old is Jean's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jean do when he goes to the beach with his family?

2. How does Jean wake up on his "lucky" day?

3. What is Jean's favorite thing to listen to when he is alone?

4. What does the wax museum symbolize to Jean?

5. What did Jean do most of the time while he was on his trip with Josephine?

6. What does Jean think about as the Summer season comes?

7. What did Jean do when he started feeling sick in the car on the night of his stroke?

8. What does Jean think about as he is taken to the hospital on the night of his stroke?

9. What does Jean think about after his trip to the beach with his family?

10. How did Josephine respond when Jean said they needed to end their relationship?

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