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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the undertaker who repaired the face of the murdered girl in Chapter 5?
(a) Wilbur Johnson.
(b) Wesley Ryan.
(c) Henry Nugent.
(d) Wesley Rice.

2. How old was Nugent's second wife when they married?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 18.
(d) 20.

3. What did Lynch suggest could be the introductory price of a grave site at the golfatorium?
(a) $500.
(b) $750.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $600.

4. To what town was Lynch's father's body brought?
(a) Ft. Lauderdale.
(b) Miami.
(c) Ft. Myers.
(d) St. Petersburg.

5. How many years of marriage did Nugent's poem refer to?
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

6. Besides funeral homes, what business did Lynch say persisted in using the family name in the business name?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Grocers.
(c) Electricians.
(d) Plumbers.

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

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

9. What did Lynch's mother convince her husband to get their son Dan?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A trampoline.
(d) A BB gun.

10. In what town's hospital was Nora treated?
(a) Cork.
(b) Galway.
(c) Waterford.
(d) Ennis.

11. What was the last name of the undertaker who handled Nora's death?
(a) O'Connell.
(b) Collins.
(c) Bryant.
(d) Regan.

12. What poem did Thomas Lynch recite his fall from a fire escape in college?
(a) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
(b) "The Jabberwocky."
(c) "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed."
(d) "Slouching Towards Bethlehem."

13. Where did Nugent meet his next wife?
(a) At the supermarket.
(b) At a college campus.
(c) At a poetry reading.
(d) At the movies.

14. Approximately how many of his townspeople did Lynch bury each year?
(a) 200.
(b) 150.
(c) 250.
(d) 300.

15. What funeral related item did Lynch sell on commission?
(a) Urns.
(b) Caskets.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Cemetery plots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Irish writer did Lynch admire?

2. What was the name of the woman whose body smelled bad because of her last meal?

3. Where did Milo die?

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

5. How much would the laundry bill have come to for the work Milo did for Lynch?

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