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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 people live "in the town"?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 8,000.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 5,000.

2. Who did Lynch want to serve as pallbearers?
(a) His best friends.
(b) His siblings.
(c) His children.
(d) His colleagues.

3. In what year was Matthew Sweeney born?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1948.

4. How had the men in Lynch's family died for the most part?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Old age.
(c) Heart problems.
(d) Strokes.

5. At what age did Lynch's mother die?
(a) 62.
(b) 65.
(c) 60.
(d) 72.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only thing Lynch really wanted at death?

2. What kind of food was served at The Red Fort?

3. What age was Lynch at that time?

4. What seafood dish did Lynch refer to at the end of Chapter 8?

5. When did Lynch feel his midpoint had arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lynch view the current state of debate over abortion?

2. What statement does a casket, versus a simple coffin, make?

3. What kind of music did Lynch want at his funeral?

4. Why do people feel the need to memorialize the dead?

5. Why did Janet Adkins ask Jack Kevorkian to assist in her suicide?

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

7. How does Lynch describe people's different approaches to living life at the end of Chapter 8 and which approach did Sweeney take?

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

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

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

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