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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Maybe I'm Amazed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Goolrick's mother and father die?
(a) They smoked too much.
(b) They were in a car accident.
(c) They drank too much.
(d) They suffered from colitis.

2. What did Goolrick read to his brother's wife in the church?
(a) Poems.
(b) Newspaper articles.
(c) Obituaries.
(d) The Bible.

3. What does Goolrick do in the early morning the day following his mother's death?
(a) Cries.
(b) Leaves town.
(c) Robs a bank.
(d) Builds a cabinet.

4. What second operation did brother have that could have rendered him "a zombie" according to mother?
(a) A removal of the left brain.
(b) A frontal lobotomy.
(c) A severing of the right and left brain.
(d) A heart transplant.

5. What did grandfather do in response to Dodo's problem?
(a) He stopped drinking.
(b) He started smoking.
(c) He started drinking.
(d) He stopped smoking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Goolrick inadvertently put on his mother's wound?

2. What is the last contact Goolrick has with Dodo?

3. What primary emotion does Goolrick find himself feeling following his father's death?

4. What does the family pretend Mother is dying from, to avoid reality?

5. Why did brother's wife hate Goolrick?

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