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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Crapper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What American TV show did Nora Lynch begin watching once she got her first television set?
(a) One Life to Live.
(b) Guiding Light.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Gunsmoke.

2. Children under twelve accounted for approximately what percentage of deaths in 1900?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-eighth.
(c) Half.
(d) One-fourth.

3. What kind of food did Lynch say many neighbors brought over after his divorce?
(a) Chili.
(b) Beef stews.
(c) Chicken pot pies.
(d) Roasted chicken.

4. What was the name of the woman whose body smelled bad because of her last meal?
(a) Regan.
(b) Sheehan.
(c) Lynch.
(d) O'Brien.

5. What American author was mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) Joan Didion.
(b) Jessica Mitford.
(c) James Agee.
(d) Somerset Waugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Out of a thousand people in a room, how many would be expected to die by the end of the year according to Lynch's analogy in Chapter 1?

2. Where did Ernest Fuller serve in the military?

3. Approximately how many of his townspeople did Lynch bury each year?

4. For approximately how long had Lynch been an undertaker when Chapter 2 opened?

5. To what town was Lynch's father's body brought?

(see the answer key)

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