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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what month did the Michigan undertakers conduct their conference?
(a) December.
(b) February.
(c) March.
(d) January.

3. What ancient human ancestor did Lynch say first buried the dead?
(a) Cro-Magnons.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Homo Sapien.
(d) Austrolopithicus.

4. How much did the signet ring cost?
(a) Sixty dollars.
(b) Forty dollars.
(c) Forty-five dollars.
(d) Fifty dollars.

5. To what state did the Nugents move after marrying?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Minnesota.

6. How much of his gross earnings were profit?
(a) Seven percent.
(b) Ten percent.
(c) Five percent.
(d) Twelve percent.

7. To what did Nugent's poem refer?
(a) Faith.
(b) Family.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Courtship.

8. What two retirement destinations did Lynch mention?
(a) Florida and North Carolina.
(b) Florida and New Mexico.
(c) Arizona and New Mexico.
(d) Florida and Arizona.

9. What was the name of the village Tommy and Nora Lynch lived in?
(a) Drogheda.
(b) Bantry.
(c) Cobh.
(d) Moveen.

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

11. For what Irish patriot was the bridge in the chapter named?
(a) McBride.
(b) O'Connell.
(c) Wolfe Tone.
(d) Pearse.

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

13. What kind of food made Lynch and Patterson sick in Ireland?
(a) Chili.
(b) Shepherd's pie.
(c) Blood pudding.
(d) Curry.

14. In what year was St. Stephen martyred?
(a) 35 A.D.
(b) 30 A.D.
(c) 45 A.D.
(d) 40 A.D.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ernest Fuller serve in the military?

2. Why do undertakers massage the body?

3. To what state was Lynch flying when he first thought of a golfatorium?

4. What style poem did Nugent write?

5. What did Lynch's sisters plant at the base of the gravestone every spring?

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