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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Golfatorium.

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

2. What did Lynch's father see in every bruise on his children?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Muscular dystrophy.
(c) Brittle-bone disease.
(d) Melanoma.

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

4. In what month did Roberton's poem appear in the magazine?
(a) November.
(b) December.
(c) February.
(d) January.

5. What Irish writer did Lynch admire?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what medical procedure did Lynch refer when speaking about people's aversion to funerals?

2. What poet made the statement about men dying for what they miss in poetry?

3. In what Irish town were Lynch and Don Paterson discussing Thomas Crapper?

4. Approximately how much do cremated human remains weigh?

5. On what day was Lynch's mother buried?

(see the answer key)

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