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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Jean's left ear?

2. How old is Jean's son?

3. How many children does Jean have?

4. What was featured on the item Jean bought for the woman he took on his trip?

5. What changed Jean's mind about the people he hated when he woke from his coma?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jean feel he does not belong at the hospital?

4. What day of the week does Jean dread the most, and why?

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

6. What does Jean think his day at the racetrack represents?

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

8. What did Jean do while in Hong Kong?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways Jean is able to cope with his immobility, boredom, and loneliness, and what does this indicate about his personality?

Essay Topic 2

How do Jean's feelings about and relationship with his caretakers at the hospital change over the course of this narrative?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the things Jean compares the patients in his hospital to and why?

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