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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Words Made Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease did Lynch's father have outbreaks of?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Osteoarthritis.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Rheumatoid arthritis.

2. In what era did Gladstone live?
(a) Georgian.
(b) Colonial.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) Victorian.

3. In what magazine was Robertson trying to get published?
(a) Atlantic.
(b) New Yorker.
(c) Utne Reader.
(d) Vanity Fair.

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

5. 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?
(a) 8.4.
(b) 9.0.
(c) 5.4.
(d) 10.4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do undertakers massage the body?

2. How much of his gross earnings were profit?

3. Besides funeral homes, what business did Lynch say persisted in using the family name in the business name?

4. When did embalming become common?

5. Where did they conduct this conference?

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