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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long does Goolrick spend in the hospital?
(a) Twelve weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Eight weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

3. What disease does Goolrick's mother have?
(a) Varices.
(b) Lyme Disease.
(c) Fibromyalsia.
(d) Ulcerative Colitis.

4. What does Goolrick believe decides human emotion?
(a) Personal choice.
(b) Society.
(c) God.
(d) Human reactions to pain.

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

6. What was one of the rules for Goolrick's mother?
(a) She never drank water.
(b) She never drank or served rum.
(c) She never served rabbit.
(d) She never ate meat.

7. What did this person say was the basis for the suicide attempt?
(a) The suffering on the human spirit.
(b) The death of his daughter.
(c) The mediocrity of life.
(d) The pain of divorce.

8. Why did brother's wife hate Goolrick?
(a) She felt he was a drunk.
(b) She felt he was cruel to her husband.
(c) She hated his drug use.
(d) She thought he flirted with her.

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

10. What didn't anyone during Goolrick's childhood drink?
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Whiskey.

11. Why is the psychiatrist in the hospital?
(a) She is an addict.
(b) She is a doctor.
(c) She is violent.
(d) She is suicidal.

12. 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 severing of the right and left brain.
(c) A frontal lobotomy.
(d) A heart transplant.

13. What is wrong with Aunt Dodo?
(a) She is mentally handicapped.
(b) She is deaf.
(c) She is blind.
(d) She is paralyzed.

14. What therapy does the other person endure in the hospital?
(a) Social therapy.
(b) Water therapy.
(c) Shock therapy.
(d) Medicational therapy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Goolrick note about the young man in the glass room?

2. What did Goolrick's parents bring with them when they came down for brother's surgery?

3. What does Dodo try to get Goolrick to do to her?

4. What did mother once pull from her ribcage?

5. What does Goolrick do in the early morning the day following his mother's death?

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