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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. To what medical procedure did Lynch refer when speaking about people's aversion to funerals?
(a) Root canals.
(b) Mammograms.
(c) Colonoscopies.
(d) Appendectomies.

2. How did Milo die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Heart failure.
(c) Unspecified illness.
(d) Cancer.

3. How many words did Roberton's poem contain?
(a) 53.
(b) 64.
(c) 59.
(d) 45.

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

5. To what town was Lynch's father's body brought?
(a) Ft. Myers.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Ft. Lauderdale.
(d) Miami.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of the undertaker who handled Nora's death?

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

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

4. What was the name of the undertaker who repaired the face of the murdered girl in Chapter 5?

5. What kind of service did the Irish priest who married Lynch say he wanted?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lynch handle being a father while serving as an undertaker and seeing dead children?

2. How did the modern amenities (toilet, television, etc.) change life in the old Irish cottage?

3. Of all the choices offered by Lynch to explain Stephanie's death, which one seemed to be the one he would choose?

4. How did Lynch "resolve" his feelings about the existence of God?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Lynch view the work done by his colleague Wesley Rice with the young, murdered girl?

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