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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. Who does Jean want to continue admiring his picture in Hong Kong?
(a) Business people.
(b) Women in mini skirts.
(c) Drunk men.
(d) Tourists.

2. Who does Jean not want the reader to tell about his condition?
(a) The bus driver.
(b) The Chinese officials.
(c) The models in the picture.
(d) The bar owner.

3. Where do people say Jean should take a pilgrimage to?
(a) Paris.
(b) Lourdes.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

4. How does Jean describe the passing years?
(a) Constant.
(b) Ever changing.
(c) Cyclical.
(d) Swift.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Jean's best childhood friend?

2. What does Jean imagine living in his head?

3. What does Jean start doing when he is on his way to pick up his son?

4. What does Jean's daughter do to entertain her father?

5. What makes Jean feel out of place in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Jean do while in Hong Kong?

4. What causes Jean to see that he needs to break up with Josephine?

5. What does Jean think about as Claude reads Jean the book he has been writing?

6. What makes Jean's lucky day so funny to him?

7. What does Jean plan to do to keep in touch with his friends?

8. What is Jean's favorite thing to do when taken to the beach by friends?

9. Who is Olivier, and what was he good at?

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

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