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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. What did Uncle Eddie need help coming up with as he was starting his suicide cleanup business?
(a) A newspaper ad.
(b) A snappy Yellow Pages ad.
(c) An easy to remember 800 number.
(d) Brochures.

2. How many assisted suicides are cremated?
(a) Four out of seven.
(b) Three out of five.
(c) Seven out of ten.
(d) Nine out of ten.

3. What age was Lynch at that time?
(a) 41.
(b) 45.
(c) 38.
(d) 47.

4. When did Lynch feel his midpoint had arrived?
(a) The day his second child was born.
(b) The day he took over the family business.
(c) The day he buried his mother.
(d) The day he buried his father.

5. When was the Oak Grove Bridge declared unsafe for vehicular traffic?
(a) Late 1970s.
(b) Early 1970s.
(c) Late 1960s.
(d) Mid 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Jack Kevorkian assist in his first suicide?

2. What TV show did Mary Jackson appear in?

3. How long was the old-fashioned mourning period?

4. What poet is quoted at the beginning of "Tract"?

5. What California town did Lynch imagine dying in in his analogy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lynch mean when he said that "in even the best of caskets, it never all fits"?

2. How does Lynch view a world in which certain deaths are acceptable (abortion, war, capital punishment)?

3. Why did Lynch suggest February as a good month for his death and burial?

4. What lesson did Lynch want to teach Sweeney with his story of the man killed by the falling vehicle at the scrap metal yard?

5. How did the funeral processions through town change when the Oak Grove bridge collapsed?

6. How did Lynch react to the body of the young man who shot himself in Chapter 9?

7. How did Lynch feel about the prospect of his loved ones feeling guilt at his funeral?

8. What did Lynch see as the advantage of being at the midpoint of one's life?

9. What did Lynch want from his funeral, when all was said and done?

10. How does Sweeney approach the consuming of food delicacies?

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