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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 woman whose body smelled bad because of her last meal?
(a) Regan.
(b) Sheehan.
(c) O'Brien.
(d) Lynch.

2. What nationality was Paterson?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Scottish.
(c) English.
(d) Irish.

3. How many hours did the undertaker work on the murdered girl?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Twenty.

4. What French writer did Lynch quote at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Satre.
(b) Rimbauld.
(c) Hugo.
(d) La Rochefoucald.

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

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

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

8. What ethnic food did Robertson and his wife enjoy in celebration of the poem's publication?
(a) Italian.
(b) Lebanese.
(c) Turkish.
(d) Persian.

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

10. To what fast food restaurant did Lynch refer when talking about non-custodial parents?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Wendy's.
(c) Burger King.
(d) Taco Bell.

11. What brand of vehicle did Lynch refer to when discussing the power of advertising?
(a) Chryslers.
(b) Chevys.
(c) Toyotas.
(d) Fords.

12. What was the last act that Lynch did to Milo's body?
(a) Wash his body.
(b) Embalm the body.
(c) Dress the body.
(d) Position his hands.

13. What kind of minister was almost decked when he told a grieving parent that the body of her dead daughter was just a shell?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Episcopalian.

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

15. At the time of Thomas Lynch's accident, how many years had his father been sober?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did Nugent teach in college when he met his wife?

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

3. For approximately how long had Lynch been an undertaker when Chapter 2 opened?

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

5. In what year was St. Stephen martyred?

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