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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of Lynch's eight siblings are part of the funeral industry?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) All of them.
(d) Six.

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

3. In what Irish town were Lynch and Don Paterson discussing Thomas Crapper?
(a) Sligo.
(b) Galway.
(c) Cork.
(d) Dublin.

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

5. How many golf courses opened in Milford in the course of a year?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

6. Approximately how many of his townspeople were cremated each year?
(a) Four to five dozen.
(b) Two to three dozen.
(c) One to two dozen.
(d) Five dozen.

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

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

9. How many siblings did Lynch have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Four.
(c) Nine.
(d) Seven.

10. How long had Lynch's parents been married?
(a) 43 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 47 years.
(d) 52 years.

11. Where did Milo die?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) At his place of business.
(c) At home.
(d) In his car.

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

13. Approximately how much do cremated human remains weigh?
(a) Ten to twelve pounds.
(b) Twelve to fifteen pounds.
(c) Four to seven pounds.
(d) Six to ten pounds.

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

15. Where did they conduct this conference?
(a) Bermuda.
(b) The Greater Antilles.
(c) The Lesser Antilles.
(d) Jamaica.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sibling took too many pills and almost overdosed?

2. What Christian writer did Lynch's mother frequently read?

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

4. In what year was St. Stephen martyred?

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?

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