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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Summer of Our Suicides.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the other person try suicide?
(a) He drove his car off a cliff.
(b) He slits his wrists and his throat.
(c) She overdosed.
(d) She tried to hang herself.

2. What did Goolrick purchase for his parents for which they never thanked him?
(a) Cars.
(b) Stocks.
(c) A house.
(d) Clothing.

3. What does Goolrick suffer from?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Anhedonia.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Bulimia.

4. What does Goolrick admit his mother never showed him?
(a) Gentleness.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Love.
(d) Patience.

5. What does Dodo do that the other children cannot do?
(a) Smokes and drinks.
(b) Drives.
(c) Reads.
(d) Draws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Aunt Dodo?

2. What does Goolrick do instead of suicide?

3. What did Goolrick read to his brother's wife in the church?

4. At what age did most people start smoking in Virginia, according to Goolrick?

5. What does Judy collect?

(see the answer key)

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