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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did mother make at the end of month when they were short on money?
(a) Grilled cheese.
(b) Poached salmon.
(c) Welsh rarebit.
(d) Cabbage soup.

2. What does Goolrick note about the young man in the glass room?
(a) He is violent.
(b) He is deep in despair.
(c) He is talkative.
(d) He is angry.

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

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

5. What caused Goolrick to end his relationship with his male lover?
(a) He was violent.
(b) He was not gay.
(c) He was an alcoholic.
(d) He was dragged into his lover's divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Goolrick do every night when he returns to his apartment in New York?

2. What does Goolrick admit his mother never showed him?

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

4. What does Goolrick begin to carry with him?

5. Why is Goolrick happy the door is always locked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Goolrick's sister-in-law claims to hate him.

2. Explain how Mother died and Goolrick's actions at the time of her death.

3. Describe how mother came to own a mink coat.

4. Explain the situation that led to Goolrick's cutting behaviors.

5. Explain who Sam Weller is, and what happens to him.

6. Explain the young man who joins the ward while Goolrick is there.

7. Describe Goolrick's parents as he describes them by the end of the chapter.

8. Describe Dodo.

9. Describe the circumstances that led to brother's CAT scan which revealed the aneurysm.

10. Describe Goolrick's state of mind at this point in the novel.

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