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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much would the laundry bill have come to for the work Milo did for Lynch?
(a) $45.
(b) $50.
(c) $55.
(d) $60.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Milo die?

2. What poem did Thomas Lynch recite his fall from a fire escape in college?

3. In which state did the accident occur?

4. How long had Lynch's parents been married?

5. What funeral related item did Lynch sell on commission?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lynch describe the difference between chance and coincidence?

2. What were the different ways in which loved ones reacted to being asked to collect the ashes of the deceased?

3. What did Lynch mean when he stated that "one hand washes the other" in Chapter 1?

4. What did Lynch lament about the modern homes Americans live in?

5. What did Lynch consider the mark of a good faith leader?

6. What is the essential difference between burying the old and burying infants?

7. How did Lynch feel about constantly taking Nugent's phone calls following the divorce?

8. What are the dangers of viewing the dead as an "embarrassment?"

9. What was Lynch's view of the notion that the corpse is just an empty shell?

10. According to Lynch, why do people find it important to have bodies to bury?

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