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

2. What did Lynch's father see in every bruise on his children?
(a) Brittle-bone disease.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Muscular dystrophy.
(d) Melanoma.

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

4. Approximately how many acres are in a par four hole on a golf course?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

5. How many years had Nugent's first marriage lasted?
(a) 10.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Thomas Lynch's oldest child when he divorced?

2. When did embalming become common?

3. Children under twelve accounted for approximately what percentage of deaths in 1900?

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

5. To what fast food restaurant did Lynch refer when talking about non-custodial parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do most people never pay attention to the figure Lynch called "The Big One"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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