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

2. In what social organization was Milo a leader?
(a) Elks.
(b) Knights of Columbus.
(c) Rotary.
(d) Masonic Lodge.

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

4. On what day was Milo buried?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Monday.

5. What kind of coffin did the priest want to be buried in?
(a) Mahagony.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Bronze.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old were the twins who drowned in the river?

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

3. What Asian city did Lynch mention as a place where funeral pyres are frequent?

4. What disease did Lynch's father have outbreaks of?

5. What American author was mentioned in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does society generally view cemeteries, according to Lynch?

2. What did Lynch mean by "the poor cousin of fear is rage?"

3. How did Lynch try to maintain some of the old traditions after he fixed up the Irish cottage when Nora passed away?

4. Why did Lynch say some cultural groups (immigrant Irish, Diaspora Jews, African-Americans) actually"enjoy" funerals?

5. Why did the undertakers at the conference seem intent of developing new language to explain what they did for a living?

6. Why was Henry Nugent unable to get relief from his heartbreak following his divorce?

7. Why did Nugent have several relationships following his divorce and did they help him find love?

8. If the dead don't care, why did Lynch get up in the middle of the night to tend to the newly deceased?

9. Why was Lynch's father fond of quoting Gladstone?

10. In what fundamental ways did the flush toilet change human civilization?

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