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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. What does Goolrick do instead of suicide?
(a) He begins to cut himself.
(b) He enters a mental institution.
(c) He begins to knit.
(d) He begins to weep.

2. To what does Goolrick compare his time at the hospital?
(a) The first weeks of grade school.
(b) Hell.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The first few weeks of college.

3. At what age did most people start smoking in Virginia, according to Goolrick?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

4. Why did Goolrick's parents summon him home one Christmas to scream at him?
(a) He went insane.
(b) He wrote a book about the family.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He flunked out of college.

5. At what age did Goolrick begin having suicidal thoughts?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Goolrick spend in the hospital?

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

3. What seems surprising to Goolrick about the differences in human beings?

4. What does Goolrick do on his thirty-fifth birthday?

5. What happened often to the boys when they played a game down by the river with rocks?

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